In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

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 ...

In his first-year seminar dubbed “Could a Robot Ever Be Conscious?” Professor Richard Huskey guides students to discuss theories of consciousness. Through a variety of fields ranging from neuroscience ...

Many top professionals and leaders may feel uneasy about AI. Here’s why—and what it reveals about human intelligence.

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

Pete Sacco spends his days building the infrastructure that makes artificial intelligence possible. Data centers consuming ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

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Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.