Could a machine ever feel pain or pleasure? Could it have its own inner experience of the world? As artificial intelligence grows more fluent in conversation, reasoning and problem-solving, this question is migrating from ...
Artificial intelligence can increasingly imitate some human capabilities, but a fundamental question remains open: could it come to experience the world subjectively? A new study proposes to put aside, for now, the question of whether current AIs are aware and examine what the biological brain teaches us about the possibilities of a future artificial consciousness.