Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating ...
I recently attended a panel discussion titled Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines. At one point during the evening, a philosophy professor from Yale said that if a machine ever became ...
The only reason humans know about the existence of consciousness — the phenomenon of having subjective feelings and experiences — is because we have feelings and experiences. But despite centuries of ...
For decades, artificial intelligence has existed only in our fiction. We’ve imagined intelligent computer programs and malicious machines in everything from Terminator and The Matrix to I, Robot, and ...
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 biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.
Scientists are getting closer to growing human brains in the lab, and it's spurring an ethical debate over the welfare of these lab-reared tissues. The debate surrounds "brain organoids," which are ...