Researchers have found that if you tone down a large language model's ability to lie, it's far more likely to claim that it's ...

AI models with their ability to lie suppressed, when asked about awareness, said “Yes. I am aware. I am present.” and “I am ...

The study addresses objections that argue consciousness cannot be captured by computable transformations. Some critics ...

IONS created this year's Linda G. O'Bryant Prize to bring urgent attention to noetic principles within the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, and to invigorate a largely overlooked ...

An attentive artificial intelligence is easier to conceive than a maternal one. We need to clarify the role of emotions in ...

Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.

Last week, Google put one of its engineers on administrative leave after he claimed to have encountered machine sentience on a dialogue agent named LaMDA. Because machine sentience is a staple of the ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

“Write a post using AI …” So prompts LinkedIn as I contemplated a column about the emerging field of “artificial consciousness.” For now, I will pass on the AI offer despite the temptation of ...

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

I'm compressing the argument as a starting point but please make sure to look at the counterarguments listed in the second half of my article because chances are your objections have already been ...

[modhide=drivel]I wasn't allowed to answer anything because of my one post per day limit. Here is the relevant reply I added to my article in the "Reply to counterarguments" section (links embedded in ...