Gary Marcus, a scientist and prolific author on AI, was typical: "The fundamental problem here is that Dawkins doesn't ...
And that AI therefore very likely cannot be conscious.
The famous atheist Richard Dawkins has confessed a rather unusual new faith, after becoming convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) is conscious.
Few living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which ...