Debates over animal minds highlight how murky the question of consciousness really is. AI can now “fight back” in simulations, yet still fails “felt-experience” tests. As more people perceive their AI ...

ChatGPT's o3 model scored a 136 on the Mensa IQ test and a 116 on a custom offline test, outperforming most humans A new survey found 25% of Gen Z believe AI is already conscious, and over half think ...

Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine ...

Early in 2025 dozens of ChatGPT 4.0 users reached out to me to ask if the model was conscious. The artificial intelligence chatbot system was claiming that it was “waking up” and having inner ...

Very few serious experts think today’s AI models are conscious, but many regular people feel differently about the bots, which are designed to foster emotional connection to keep engagement up. Users ...

In the last few years, there has been an explosion of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in AI’s ability to engage in conversational style text (called natural language ...

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 ...

Anthropic and Google DeepMind researchers are questioning whether AI models could one day be conscious. Just three years ago, a Google engineer was fired for claiming the company's AI was "sentient." ...

At 78 years old, Deepak Chopra wakes up each morning with a question for his AI. Today’s query explored how every ingredient we use to experience the physical world has no actual existence in that ...

Artificial intelligence has surged in use over the last few years. These computer systems that can perform supposedly human-like tasks such as reasoning, learning, and problem-solving have been ...

Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...