When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

Mashable Benelux is dé plek voor alles over games, films, series, comics en gadgets. De laatste reviews en al het nieuws over ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

Microsoft’s AI boss Mustafa Suleyman has argued that so‑called “machine consciousness” is an illusion and that the capacity to suffer central to moral standing is a biological property, not a ...

When Lisa Cheng walked onto the wooded grounds in rural Virginia, ready to start a week-long retreat about consciousness, she wasn't looking for a startup idea. She was looking for a reset. Days were ...

In 2022, a Google engineer claimed one of the company’s AIs was sentient. He lost his job, but the story stuck. For a brief moment, questions of machine consciousness spilled out of science fiction ...