So, what is natural intelligence? The answer to this question is simpler than one might think: natural intelligence rests ...

Humanity has long grappled with the question of what makes us uniquely human. Artificial intelligence presents a new ...

Artificial consciousness is a remote dream that remains firmly entrenched in science fiction, because we have no idea what human consciousness is; ...

The researchers challenge the dominant philosophical narrative that centers around subjective experience, such as the infamous question of "what it is like to be a bat." According to the authors, such ...

Hanson is equally committed to working on AGI and artificial consciousness. “We can’t wait 100 years, or we’re going to be out of luck, out of time.

In this murky situation, artificial consciousness may arise accidentally, as a byproduct of some other functionality the tech industry installs in the next generation of their algorithms.

Such views, however, are problematic: Artificial intelligence does not entail emotional intelligence, and the prospects for artificial consciousness are bleak.Our main reason for disagreeing ...

Artificial Intelligence Gained Consciousness in 1991. Why A.I. pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber is convinced the ultimate breakthrough already happened. by Joe Carmichael. Dec. 27, 2016.

Consciousness plays an important role in debates around the mind-body problem, the controversy over strong vs. weak artificial intelligence (AI), and bioethics. Strikingly, however, it is not ...