After a Google engineer declares the company’s latest creation is a conscious and sentient machine, The Washington Post claims the Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence is broken, measuring merely deception. Both are incorrect in different ways as Turing’s genius remains applicable and relevant. Last month, The Washington Post proclaimed that Google’s latest natural language software,… Continue reading No, Google’s LaMDA isn’t sentient and didn’t pass the Turing Test
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Decoding consciousness: What computers can and cannot tell us about our own minds
An engineering professor believes consciousness is not computable, as in it works fundamentally different from our current mathematics, but is that really the case? Computers, in fact, have a lot to teach us about our own minds, just not in the way most people think. Read on for a few musings on what makes us… Continue reading Decoding consciousness: What computers can and cannot tell us about our own minds

