In October 2025, a paper titled “Human vs. AI Consciousness” introduced a new metric: the Integration Score for AI, or ISAI. The proposal aims to provide a falsifiable, measurable indicator of consciousness-related properties in artificial systems. It builds on decades...
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Posts tagged with "Philosophy"
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Chalmers and Seth on Whe...
On October 14, 2025, Tufts University hosted a symposium titled “Let’s Talk About (Artificial) Consciousness,” organized to honor the late philosopher Daniel Dennett. Among the speakers were David Chalmers and Anil Seth, two of the most prominent researchers working on...
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AAAI Report: Why Scaling...
In late 2024, a survey of 475 AI researchers produced a finding worth more attention than it received. When asked whether simply making large language models bigger would be sufficient to achieve artificial general intelligence, 76% said it was “unlikely”...
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Google Executive's Warni...
In September 2024, Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X, appeared in a widely circulated video clip declaring that current AI models are “sentient in every possible way.” He went further, saying they are “definitely aware” and capable...
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Testing the Boundaries: ...
In March 2023, a team from Microsoft Research published a paper titled “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4.” The 155-page document argued that GPT-4 displayed “a level of general intelligence” across a remarkably wide range of tasks,...