{"id":191960,"date":"2024-06-27T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/could-ai-ever-become-conscious-heres-the-truth-about-thinking-feeling-machines"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:25:14","slug":"could-ai-ever-become-conscious-heres-the-truth-about-thinking-feeling-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/could-ai-ever-become-conscious-heres-the-truth-about-thinking-feeling-machines","title":{"rendered":"Could AI Ever Become Conscious? Here\u2019s the Truth About Thinking, Feeling Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXx-PpEBR7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> looks at sentience as consciousness, self-awareness, and intelligence\u2014and that was actually pretty spot on. Sentience is the innate human ability to experience feelings and sensations without association or interpretation. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about more than just code; we\u2019re talking about the ability of a machine to think and to feel, along with having morality and spirituality,\u201d Ishaani Priyadarshini, a Cybersecurity Ph.D. candidate from the University of Delaware, tells <em>Popular Mechanics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1AI is very clever and able to <em>mimic<\/em> sentience, but never actually become sentient itself.<\/p>\n<p>The very idea of consciousness has been heavily contested in philosophy for decades. The 17th-century philosopher Ren\u00e9 Descartes famously said, \u201cI think therefore I am.\u201d A simple statement on the surface, but it was the result of his search for a statement that couldn\u2019t be doubted. Think about it: he couldn\u2019t doubt his existence as he was the one doubting himself in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation looks at sentience as consciousness, self-awareness, and intelligence\u2014and that was actually pretty spot on. Sentience is the innate human ability to experience feelings and sensations without association or interpretation. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about more than just code; we\u2019re talking about the ability of a machine to think and to feel, along [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}