On Friday, July 31, 2026, at 12:25 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Consciousness was never the issue. Any machine that passes the Turing test is > conscious as far as we can tell. All it takes is text prediction. About 80% > of us believe that when we die, our immortal soul goes to some kind of > afterlife. It's the other 20% that brought us AI.
Quite a number of AI scientists and researchers believe in a human soul but most have kept it separate from their research. Perhaps that might change: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10413 ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb3ee7f27b4bafd90-Mf39ebee6ba802791e9a1d338 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
