A software engineer on Google’s artificial intelligence team was suspended by the company earlier this month. His offense: Sharing confidential information that had led him to believe an AI he had ...

Like most conspiracy theories, what’s going on here is that the need to believe is triumphing over common sense. If you got to the Bing subreddit, you’ll see it’s heavily dominated by people who ...

A common trope in science fiction is “what if the computer comes to life?” The plot of “Free Guy” (2021) — a mediocre film — for example, revolved around a nonplayer character in a video game gaining ...

Let me begin by taking the position that I believe the abrupt arrival of the AI-powered Chatbots raised the larger questions of how sentience, intelligence and thinking are related. Some might even ...

Silicon Valley is abuzz about artificial intelligence - software programs that can draw or illustrate or chat almost like a person. One Google engineer actually thought a computer program had gained ...

In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, there is a computer controlling most of the spaceship's functions. The computer is described this way on Wikipedia: "HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence ...

Following a Google engineer’s viral claims that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot “LaMDa” was sentient, Stanford experts have urged skepticism and open-mindedness while encouraging a rethinking of ...

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 ...