The rise of the sentient machine is an old trope in science fiction. And it never turns out good for humanity. The Terminator, The Matrix, and I, Robot are all examples of movies that depict ...

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 ...

Leon Gordon is a leader in data analytics, a current Microsoft MVP based in the UK and a partner at Pomerol Partners. Sentience is the ability to feel and perceive self, others and the world. It can ...

We are close to the point where new types of automated routines and software applications could operate independently of direct human control to carry out prescribed tasks. Helping us arrive, ...

Claims of machine “sentience” challenge Jewish notions of moral responsibility, writes a rabbi and engineer. (JTA) — When a Google engineer told an interviewer that an artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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 ...

Gary Fowler is a serial AI entrepreneur with numerous startups and an IPO. He is CEO and cofounder of GSDVS.com and Yva.ai. Generative AI has been a “normal” part of people’s daily lives for a few ...

IT IS ONE of the oldest tropes in science fiction. On June 11th the Washington Post reported that an engineer at Google, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended from his job for arguing that the firm’s ...

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 ...