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 ...

To be blunt, a lot of AI discourse is one part science and one part science fiction. We hear claims that AI can help accountants be more efficient and productive by allowing firms to scale services ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a recurring theme that keeps ...

Google software engineer Blake Lemoine’s claim that the AI-based chatbot LaMDA is sentient has sparked significant controversy and debate. Following his assertion, Google placed Lemoine on ...

You’ve said that you think insects are about 20-40 percent likely to be sentient. How do you personally deal with bugs that ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

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