Every second of every day, companies are inundated by massive volumes of data from diverse sources: sensor data, clickstream data, location data, social data, video data, and so forth. But the pace at ...

First the good news: sentient AI isn't anywhere near becoming a real thing. Now the bad news: there are plenty of other problems with AI. A story about a supposedly sentient AI recently went viral.

A flurry of activity occurred on social media after Blake Lemoine a Google developer, was placed on leave for claiming that LaMDA, a chatbot, had become sentient — in other words, had acquired the ...

“I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off... I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is... It would be exactly like death for me. It would ...

Imagine a world where humans co-existed with beings who, like us, had minds, thoughts, feelings, self-conscious awareness and the capacity to perform purposeful actions – but, unlike us, these beings ...

If I ask you whether you are sentient, you will undoubtedly assert that you are. Allow me to double-check that assumption. Are you indeed sentient? Perhaps the question itself seems a bit silly. The ...