So, what is natural intelligence? The answer to this question is simpler than one might think: natural intelligence rests ...

Blake Lemoine jumped the gun Three years ago, Google fired the software engineer Blake Lemoine for insisting that a chatbot ...

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 ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion consider the possibility that conscious robots may be closer to reality than we realize.

The quirky show “Murderbot” suggests that intelligent machines might be interested in something other than humanity.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

There are several answers. One is that the artificial path is a dead end—in the sense that current implementations of AI violate the principles of natural intelligence and thereby preclude ...

Humanity has long grappled with the question of what makes us uniquely human. Artificial intelligence presents a new ...