What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's ...

What if I were to photograph Sophia—a humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics—and then, in a separate session, the ...

From Dec. 2 to 3, the 2025 GIS Global Innovation Expo and Global Innovation Summit took place at Asia World-Expo in Hong Kong. Geoffrey Hinton, widely referred to as the “AI godfather” and a Turing ...

Facing death is a core part of making meaning of one’s life. To struggle through this universal contemplation without a ...

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

A philosopher of consciousness argues that there may be no reliable way to determine whether artificial intelligence is truly conscious, making agnosticism the most defensible position. He warns that ...

Consciousness is not just experience—it is experience that can take itself as an object. The critical turn occurs when "happening" becomes "happening to me," and later becomes "me noticing myself ...

Summary: New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose. The findings outline three distinct forms of consciousness—basic arousal, ...