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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department asked social media users to weigh in on a slimy "bryozoan" that showed up at Inks ...

According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has achieved a long-held dream of AI developers: It has become sentient. Mr Lemoine’s bosses at Google disagree, and have suspended him from ...

Inspired by claims from ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine about sentient AI, I engage in conversations with Replica—testing if it can truly form emotional connections and even pass the Turing Test.

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Without a particularly robust definition of what consciousness even is, that's still about all we can say for sure; I'm pretty sure I'm sentient, I've got no idea about you lot. But that doesn't ...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images The concept of personhood actually sounds more outlandish than it is, especially when corporations technically have personhood—so, why not sentient four-legged creatures?