AI asks what a machine can do. Artificial Consciousness asks something much harder: does the machine experience any of it? A machine can accumulate experience without experiencing anything. It can remember what happened, learn from it, reorganize it and change what it does next. All of that can be real. All of it can have consequences. None of it tells us whether anything was actually … Continue reading Conscious Machines?
Where do we, humans, stand? The first AI courtroom controversy was about transparency. The real disruption begins later, when machines are trusted enough to argue, decide, and appeal, and humans must redefine what professional value and justice actually mean. The artificial lawyer had barely started speaking when the judge interrupted. “Hold on. Is that counsel for the case?” It was not. The man appearing before … Continue reading Agent Lawyer, Agent Judge
The hardest part of deploying AI at scale is turning out not to be intelligence. It is getting organizations to stop working against themselves. Thirty thousand AI agents sounds like the kind of sentence Silicon Valley likes to throw around before reality catches up. Except reality may already be catching up. Prosus, the global technology and ecommerce group, recently said it has deployed more than … Continue reading The Strange Thing Companies Are Learning From Thousands of AI Agents
… Apparently so. For those who remember, in 2017, Sophia walked into the future wearing a humanoid face and carrying a Saudi passport. Was that the absurdity or was it also the point? When I wrote about Sophia becoming a Saudi citizen, the obvious question was not whether the robot was truly intelligent. It was whether we understood what we had just symbolically done. If … Continue reading The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?
When photography first appeared, painters didn’t celebrate. They panicked. Suddenly, a machine could capture reality with a precision no human hand could match. No need to master anatomy for years, no need to understand light through endless trial and error, no need to mix pigments until your fingers carried the memory of color. A camera could do in seconds what took painters decades to approximate. … Continue reading What is Art?
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