This paper in OSF delves into whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems could achieve consciousness, challenging assumptions like computational functionalism and substrate neutrality. It argues ...

The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a host of difficult questions. A robot prototype being developed by Yuhang Hu, a doctoral student in the ...

They argued that while artificial intelligence (AI) may face intrinsic and extrinsic limitations in emulating human consciousness, drawing upon the brain's complex structural and functional ...

As science wrestles with the thorny job of proving, defining and understanding human consciousness, one pioneering startup aims to apply cutting-edge theories of consciousness to AI models – and ...

Hanson is equally committed to working on AGI and artificial consciousness. “We can’t wait 100 years, or we’re going to be out of luck, out of time.

Sigal Samuel is a senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect and co-host of the Future Perfect podcast. She writes primarily about the future of consciousness, tracking advances in artificial ...

As the race to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) hits a fever pitch across enterprises, the savviest organizations are already looking at how to achieve artificial consciousness—a pinnacle of ...

Artificial intelligence may seem like the method du jour for understanding consciousness, but as the work of Anil Seth shows, the world of biology still has so much more to teach us. Darren Orf ...

Inasmuch as consciousness and the mind need life—which, in turn, necessitates metabolism—human-level artificial consciousness or conscious AI is impossible.

Beyond the hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise lies the next step—artificial consciousness. The first piece in this practical AI innovation series outlined the ...