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Could AI become conscious? Physicists and neuroscientists search for answers

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Can artificial intelligence help humans unravel the mysteries of consciousness and quantum physics? It’s a question that has sparked scores of science-fiction plots, from “Colossus: The Forbin Project” in 1970, to “The Matrix” in 1999, to this year’s big-budget tale about AI vs. humans, “The Creator.”

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Today’s AI is ‘alchemy,’ not science — what that means and why that matters | The AI Beat

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A New York Times article this morning, titled “How to Tell if Your AI Is Conscious,” says that in a new report, “scientists offer a list of measurable qualities” based on a “brand-new” science of consciousness. The article immediately jumped out at me, as it was published just a few days after I had …

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Exploring the mind in the machine

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Can artificial intelligence have consciousness? It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and science fiction enthusiasts alike for decades. Can artificial intelligence have consciousness? While some […]

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What is it like to be a crab?

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Consciousness science should move past a focus on complex mammalian brains to study the behaviour of ‘simpler’ animals

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Why ChatGPT isn’t conscious – but future AI systems might be

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The science of human consciousness offers new ways of gauging machine minds – and suggests there’s no obvious reason computers can’t develop awareness.

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Is AI Conscious? CDS Assistant Professor Grace Lindsay Investigates

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CDS Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science Grace Lindsay has recently participated in a round table discussion on a report she co-authored, “ Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness ”, which analyzes how to determine if the answer to this question is yes.

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If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know

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A checklist derived from six neuroscience-based theories of consciousness could aid in the assessment. Science fiction has long entertained the idea …

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