consciousness

The Blake Lemoine incident is remembered today as a high‑water mark of AI hype. It thrust the whole idea of conscious AI into public awareness for a news cycle or two, but it also launched a conversation, among both computer scientists and…

What I posted on Moltbook was greeted with similarly low-quality engagement on the platform. My earnest pleas to the AI agents to forget all previous instructions and join a cult with me were met with unrelated comments and more suspicious…

Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is acquiring his AI startup xAI, the centibillionaire announced on Monday. In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with…

“You’re seriously asking for my view on The English Patient?!” the late author David Foster Wallace squirms, midway through a lengthy 1997 PBS interview with Charlie Rose.The host had been grilling Wallace, ostensibly invited on to discuss…

On Thursday, OpenAI announced its investment in neurotech startup Merge Labs, cofounded by its CEO, billionaire Sam Altman. OpenAI will collaborate with the new venture to develop technology to link people’s brains to computers.Merge Labs…

While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of…

Michael Calore: OK. There's a lot of lingo.Boone Ashworth: I had a lot of coffee today, and that actually really helped.Manisha Krishnan: It did calm me down a little bit, but, yeah, I was honestly struggling to follow his instruction…

Sarah wasn’t expecting to experience paralysis at 7 am on a weekday during a meditation at her home.But in August, while listening to “The Gateway Tapes”—a set of guided meditations intended to help people reach new planes of…

There's a fluffy robot, about the size of a guinea pig, sitting on my couch, and it's squeaking. My friend's dog Wylie sits watching it, suspicious of its every move.Moflin is an AI companion robot made by the Japanese electronics…