Tag: chatbot
Anthropic’s Claude 4 Chatbot Suggests It Might Be Conscious
Claude 4 Chatbot Raises Questions about AI Consciousness A conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot raises questions about how AI talks about awareness. By Rachel Feltman, Deni Ellis Béchard, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re going to talk about an AI chatbot that appears to believe…
Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4
Your Chatbot Says It Might Be Conscious. Should You Believe It? As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics and the risks of uncontrolled AI evolution By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Dean Visser &…
Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Is Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points
Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points The latest version of Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, is promoting fringe climate viewpoints in a way it hasn’t done before, observers say By Scott Waldman & E&E News Elon Musk speaks during a Feb. 11 event with President Donald Trump…
New Google AI Chatbot Tackles Complex Math and Science
New Google AI Chatbot Tackles Complex Math and Science A Google DeepMind system improves chip designs and addresses unsolved math problems but has not been rolled out to researchers outside the company By Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine DeepMind says that AlphaEvolve has helped to improve the design of AI chips. Google DeepMind has used…
What Are AI Chatbot Companions Doing to Our Mental Health?
What Are AI Chatbot Companions Doing to Our Mental Health? AI chatbot companions may not be real, but the feelings users form for them are. Some scientists worry about long-term dependency By David Adam & Nature magazine “My heart is broken,” said Mike, when he lost his friend Anne. “I feel like I’m losing the…
If a Chatbot Tells You It Is Conscious, Should You Believe It?
Opinion If a Chatbot Tells You It Is Conscious, Should You Believe It? AI systems could show signs of consciousness. We need to develop better tests to show whether they are actually aware By Susan Schneider Early in 2025 dozens of ChatGPT 4.0 users reached out to me to ask if the model was conscious.…
DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Awkwardly Navigates China’s Censors
Asked about sensitive topics, the bot would begin to answer, then stop and delete its own work. It refused to answer questions like: “Who is Xi Jinping?” By Vivian Wang Vivian Wang, reporting from behind the Great Firewall, had an intriguing conversation with DeepSeek’s chatbot. As the world scrambles to understand DeepSeek — its sophistication,…