The 3 things an AI must demonstrate to be considered sentient

Jun14
by on June 14, 2022 at 9:55 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Opinion


A Google developer recently decided that one of the company’s chatbots, a large language model (LLM) called LaMBDA, had become sentient. According to a report in the Washington Post, the developer identifies as a Christian and he believes that the machine has something akin to a soul — that it’s become sentient. As is always the case, the “is it alive?” nonsense has lit up the news cycle — it’s a juicy story whether you’re imagining what it might be like if the dev was right or dunking on them for being so silly. We don’t want to dunk on…

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Why I can’t wait for Seth Dobrin’s talk at TNW Conference 2022

Jun13
by on June 13, 2022 at 7:34 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Opinion


The future’s never been fuzzier for the field of artificial intelligence. Today’s headlines are ripped straight out of our favorite science fiction classics. Sorting the nonsense from reality can often be an exercise in trying not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This might not be a problem for people who have the luxury of not caring about artificial intelligence. But anyone currently working in the STEM fields or running a business large enough to have an IT department, should definitely be able to separate the hyperbole from the things that will soon become absolutely crucial to their…

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We just discovered a fast radio burst from a distant galaxy — and we have questions

Jun11
by on June 11, 2022 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Space


The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A newly discovered fast radio burst has some unique properties that are simultaneously giving astronomers important clues into what may cause these mysterious astronomical phenomena while also calling into question one of the few things scientists thought they knew about these powerful flares, as my colleagues and I describe in a new study in Nature on June 8, 2022. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extremely bright pulses of radio waves that come from faraway galaxies. They release as much energy in a millisecond as the…

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When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer?

Jun11
by on June 11, 2022 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Uncategorized


READER QUESTION: I am 59 years old, and in reasonably good health. Is it possible that I will live long enough to put my brain into a computer? — Richard Dixon. We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units – therefore comparable to a computer. Reality, however, is much more complicated. For starters, we don’t actually know how much information the human brain can hold. Two years ago, a team at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, mapped the 3D structure of all the…

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