In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal.

As AI companies describe their models in increasingly human terms, critics question whether this is a genuine technical shift, or a calculated narrative to drive hype.

PORTER ANAD (40s — any ethnicity) Visionary tech genius. He takes it for granted that he is always the smartest person in the room. This can lead him to be arrogant and demanding. He is getting ready ...

Sentience, in a broad sense, is the capacity to feel. In a narrower sense, it refers to the capacity to have feelings with a positive or negative quality, such as feelings of pain, pleasure, boredom, ...

By David Stephen Human consciousness is often direct and sometimes predictable that it could sometimes become a haul. If it ...

Instead he’s claimed in multiple interviews that he found some kind of proof of sentience. He even posted a long transcript of his conversations about consciousness with LaMDA on his Medium page ...

This essay will explore some of the relationships between sentience, pain and vertebrate phylogeny. A sentient animal is one that has the ability to obtain and interpret stimuli from its internal ...

While AI models may never be able to experience these things, at least in the way an animal would, the team believes its research could set the foundations for a new way to gauge the sentience of ...

Sentience is the capacity to have feelings, such as feelings of pain, pleasure, hunger, thirst, warmth, joy, comfort and excitement. It is not simply the capacity to feel pain, but feelings of pain, ...