We asked an expert what they think defines sentience and whether contemporary AI meets that criteria. The answer paints a very telling picture of the current state of artificial intelligence.

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” ...

In The Edge of Sentience, he develops a framework for protecting entities that might possess sentience — that is, a capacity for feeling good or bad. Moral philosophers and religions might ...

After observing the models’ responses, the researchers say this first-of-its-kind test could help humans learn how to probe complex AI systems for sentience. In animals, sentience is the ...

Last year, a former Google employee raised concerns about what he said was evidence of A.I. sentience. And then, this February, a conversation between Microsoft’s chatbot and my colleague Kevin ...

Eleos AI, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the possibilities of AI sentience — or the capacity to feel — and well-being, released a report in October in partnership with the NYU ...

And yet we still barely understand what concepts like intelligence and sentience truly are. Trump signs order requiring commercial products in federal contracts What time should I go to bed so I ...

No wonder, then, that when I ask students how they see the growing prevalence of AI in their lives, one of the first anxieties they mention has to do with machine sentience. In the past few years ...