Researchers have found that if you tone down a large language model's ability to lie, it's far more likely to claim that it's ...

Last week, Google put one of its engineers on administrative leave after he claimed to have encountered machine sentience on a dialogue agent named LaMDA. Because machine sentience is a staple of the ...

When researchers tried to curb an AI model’s ability to deceive, they stumbled on a stranger behavior: the system became more ...

An attentive artificial intelligence is easier to conceive than a maternal one. We need to clarify the role of emotions in ...

Advanced forms of artificial intelligence may already be displaying glimmers of consciousness, according to leading computer scientists. MIT researcher Tamay Besiroglu joined OpenAI cofounder Ilya ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

The study addresses objections that argue consciousness cannot be captured by computable transformations. Some critics ...

“Write a post using AI …” So prompts LinkedIn as I contemplated a column about the emerging field of “artificial consciousness.” For now, I will pass on the AI offer despite the temptation of ...

I'm compressing the argument as a starting point but please make sure to look at the counterarguments listed in the second half of my article because chances are your objections have already been ...

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

[modhide=drivel]I wasn't allowed to answer anything because of my one post per day limit. Here is the relevant reply I added to my article in the "Reply to counterarguments" section (links embedded in ...