Blog categorized as Artificial Intelligence

It's Thursday night and 14-year-old Ethan has an essay due the next morning examining the plot and characters of a Charles Dickens book. Total word count so far? 0. But don't worry, poor Ethan is only a few clicks away from having an outline, intro, and closing paragraph.

You might have seen some fascinating news over the last week or two – an engineer at Google claimed that their new AI had reached sentience: it could think, feel and reason like a “living” being. Those claims have been largely debunked, but how did the world react?