“This came from a tree that a lot of people used to hang out ... poetry, storytelling, art and song, centred around the traditional Caymanian drum, which he makes and plays.

PINE RIVER — The Pine River Public Library offers events for the public through February. The library will be closed Monday, Feb. 17, for Presidents Day.

Introduction: Pine wilt disease spreads rapidly, leading to the death of a large number of pine trees. Exploring the corresponding prevention and control measures for different stages of pine wilt ...

According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has achieved a long-held dream of AI developers: It has become sentient. Mr Lemoine’s bosses at Google disagree, and have suspended him from ...

Inspired by claims from ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine about sentient AI, I engage in conversations with Replica—testing if it can truly form emotional connections and even pass the Turing Test.

Scientists at Google DeepMind and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) are trying to figure out how to determine if artificial intelligence (AI) systems have become sentient by ...

Welcome to the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, where the line between art and dystopian fantasy blurs in the most captivating way possible. Welcome to the Twilight ...

Here’s how it works. In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient "I" in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience — pain ...

Designed to invite a quiet focus of attention and immersive contemplation, the show is aesthetically anchored by a number of Thuilot’s own award-winning photographs of trees, several of them ...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images The concept of personhood actually sounds more outlandish than it is, especially when corporations technically have personhood—so, why not sentient four-legged creatures?

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...