The long-standing sci-fi trope of robots gaining consciousness has sparked endless debates on whether machines can actually be sentient — that is, can they feel or perceive things? That question ...

Do animals have sentience? Do they have a point of view? Can they look out at the blue sky, the flowers, and perceive the objects around them? Can they feel pleasure or pain? Many agree that mammals ...

A Google developer recently decided that one of the company’s chatbots, a large language model (LLM) called LaMBDA, had become sentient. According to a report in the Washington Post, the developer ...

One of the big news items last week was that a leading AI researcher, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended after going public that he believed that one of Google’s more advanced AIs had attained ...

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As will become apparent from the following discussion, the debate over animal sentience has, like a growing number of present-day issues, become rather polarized. A case in point was the recent Annual ...

A Google engineer claimed an AI software of theirs became sentient. Now there is debate on if these sentient machines have a place in the world. The long-standing sci-fi trope of robots gaining ...