Category: Neuroscience & Mind
For AI to Be Creative, Here’s What It Would Take
AI can appear smart when it generates a surprising result. But surprise does not equate to creativity.
Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?
Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness.
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?
Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer.
Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?
Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people.
Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”
A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program “sentient.”