In between scientists arguing over what AI sentience means and the legal system having a lack of basic understanding of AI technology, we need the equivalent of the Turing Test for AI sentience. But Tristan Greene argues that it’s almost impossible to create one because we don’t know what we’re looking for. What further complicates this endeavour is the possibility that AI consciousness may take a form different from human consciousness, like how some experts argue that AI is already conscious because they can fake consciousness. Read full article here
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‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
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March 25, 2023
