Tristan Harris Congress Testimony: Technological Deception in the Social Media Age (8/1/2023)
Tristan Harris, President and Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, testified at the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing, on Wednesday, January 8, 2020. The hearing was entitled, “Americans at Risk:
Can artificial intelligence ever be sentient? BBC Real (7/3/2023)
BBC Reel Can artificial intelligence ever be sentient? – BBC Reel Whether computers can be sentient has been a subject of debate for decades. In 2022, a Google engineer received a plea for help from a chatbot. ‘I’ve never said
Sex, love and companionship … with AI? Why human-machine relationships could go mainstream (3/4/2023)
The Conversation Sex, love and companionship … with AI? Why human-machine relationships could go mainstream Early research finds that people get just about the same gratification from sexting with a chatbot as they do with another human. (39 kB)
AI Consciousness: 10 Ways It Will Change The World (18/3/2023)
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“The Cambridge Quintet” de John L. Casti (1998)
In this narrative tour de force, gifted scientist and author John L. Casti contemplates an imaginary evening of intellectual inquiry—a sort of “My Dinner with” not Andre, but five of the most brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century.Imagine, if you
Roy Smith – When they are able to develop an AI that is Conscious, will it have a soul? (2018)
Don’t be deceived by philosophical materialism. AI will never be conscious. It’s the pure fantasy of a distorted understanding of consciousness. All fantasies that AI will become conscious remain unsupported by any science we know. The emergent brain hypothesis of
Arlindo Oliveira – Sobre o livro: The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (1994)
“Astonishing Hypothesis” é um livro escrito por Francis Crick, um renomado cientista e um dos descobridores da estrutura do DNA. No livro, Crick explora a hipótese surpreendente de que a consciência humana e a mente são produtos diretos das atividades