Sometimes, you just have to change the way you think—create a new frame of reference as a pure intellectual folly that, along the way, makes the orthodoxy cringe. Maybe it's time to challenge our ...

A researcher from the New Jersey Institute of Technology has published a perspective paper that examines sentience and its application to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Sentience describes ...

Artificial intelligence research has accelerated in recent years, and people are interacting with AI more frequently. In-home AI assistants and self-driving cars were once things out of science ...

Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom believes AI has already started to show small amounts of sentience. He cautions against the next step in AI, which could grow into the programs beginning to understand ...

There’s always some truth in fiction, and now is about the time to get a step ahead of sci-fi dystopias and determine what the risk in machine sentience can be for humans. Although people have long ...

As any great illusionist will tell you, the whole point of a staged illusion is to look utterly convincing, to make whatever is happening on stage seem so thoroughly real that the average audience ...