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I've spent a lot of time here at Skeptophilia  in the last five years warning about the (many) dangers of artificial intelligence. At th...

I've written here before about the two basic camps when it comes to the possibility of a sentient artificial intelligence. The first is ...

One of the difficulties I have with the argument that consciousness and intelligence couldn't  come out of a machine is that it's aw...

As we get closer and closer to something that is unequivocally an artificial intelligence, engineers have tackled another aspect of this; ho...

You may recall that a couple of days ago, in my post on mental maps, I mentioned that the contention of some neuroscientists is that conscio...

As a science teacher, I get kind of annoyed with the media sometimes. The misleading headlines are bad enough.  I remember seeing headline...

I am absolutely fascinated by the idea of artificial intelligence. Now, let me be up front that I don't know the first thing about the...