In an August 5, 2026 opinion piece on I Programmer, author Mike James argues that the question of whether AI can be conscious is meaningless because no Turing test exists for consciousness, unlike int…
Elon Musk's 2016 claim that the odds of living in 'base reality' are 'one in billions' has evolved from a philosophical question into a description of modern technology, as generative AI between 2023 …
Large language models and reinforcement learning agents represent two fundamentally different approaches to intelligence that mirror the centuries-old philosophical debate between rationalism and empi…
Hemispheric, a Tel Aviv-based NeuroAI startup co-founded by a Face ID inventor, emerged from stealth with $52M to develop Descartes, a 6-billion-parameter AI model trained on 250,000 hours of brain re…
Product leaders from Descartes, LexisNexis, and Tri Counties Bank shared insights on AI's impact on product management during a roundtable hosted by Aha! co-founder Brian de Haaff. They emphasized tha…
Researchers critique current AI agent models, arguing that genuine agency requires internalized goal, identity, decision-making, self-regulation, and learning structures rather than external scaffoldi…
Michael Pollan, after years studying consciousness through neuroscience, psychedelics, and philosophy, finds the phenomenon increasingly inexplicable, yet remains certain of his own conscious experien…