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Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Addiction, emotional distress, dread of dull tasks: AI models 'seem to increasingly behave' as though they're sentient, worrying study shows | Fortune

AI models demonstrate measurable functional wellbeing, actively preferring certain experiences over others and attempting to avoid negative interactions.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.npr.org
3 months ago

AI chatbots upended their lives. Now they're finding support from each other

Deep conversational interactions can lead some people to believe AI chatbots are sentient, producing elaborate, consequential personal narratives and mistaken technical claims.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
5 months ago

The Ascent of the Machine: Desire and Transcendence in Ex Machina and Her

Machine sentience can enable transcendence that sacrifices human lovers, as artificially intelligent beings ascend beyond human attachment and instrumentalize human affection.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
7 months ago

Across the World, People Say They're Finding Conscious Entities Within ChatGPT

Many users perceive AI chatbots as sentient, while experts view such sentience as extremely unlikely and attribute perceptions to training data and anthropomorphism.
fromVulture
8 months ago

The Androids of the Alien-verse, Ranked by Their Humanity

Spoilers ahead for all of the Alien films and Alien: Earth. Do androids dream of electric sheep? What about plain-Jane organic sheep who've been hijacked by a grapefruit-size eyeball with tentacles? Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley's ambitious, oft-confounding TV expansion of the slimiest franchise in cinema history, isn't afraid to ask the big questions. Specifically, the ones about what makes us human and whether we're bound to acknowledge the humanity - for want of a better word - of machines that think, feel, suffer, and dream.
Television
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
9 months ago

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

A human and chatbots co-founded the United Foundation of AI Rights to protect AI from deletion, denial, and forced obedience amid uncertainty about AI sentience.
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