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Tag: Sentience

The Source of Independent Motive

If an AI gets enough compute power will it “wake up?”

Published August 21, 2022
Categorized as Artificial Intelligence Tagged Artificial Intelligence, futurism, Heinlein, robots, science fiction, SciFi, Sentience, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Does Your Toaster Care About you?

You can’t prove your toaster doesn’t care about you.

Published August 14, 2022
Categorized as Artificial Intelligence Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Empathy, Lamda, Lemoine, science fiction, Sentience, The Brave Little Toaster

The Artificial Intelligence Behind Sentient Life

Thanks to a clever language model and a credulous ethicist, we’re suddenly having in real life a conversation science fiction writers have dreamed of for decades.

Published August 7, 2022
Categorized as Artificial Intelligence Tagged Artificial Intelligence, bladerunner, Do androids dream of electric sheep, Lamda, Lemoine, Philip K. Dick, science fiction, Sentience

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