The letter warns the type of AI that companies say they’re building will “significantly outperform all humans on essentially ...

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely ...

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We’ve trapped AI in a Turing test, measuring it by how well it imitates us instead of how much it reveals beyond us.

Perhaps the most exceptional mind to think about thinking machines before 1956 was the British mathematician Alan Turing.

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Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they ...

Some of today’s most capable AI systems are refined versions of large language models (LLMs) that predict text on the basis ...

Last week, several Nobel laureates and high-profile celebrities cautioned that the threat of artificial intelligence is real, ...

Many have made it their business to predict the AI bubble burst. But an analysis of computing history should make it ...