LONDON — An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the founder of the bitcoin cryptocurrency was found Thursday to be in contempt of an order of London’s High Court and was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years. In a judgment on Thursday, Justice James Mellor said Craig Wright had committed “a clear breach” of …
Amidst the ongoing debate over whether artificial intelligence is really sentient, scientists are still trying to figure out the same thing about non-human animals. Over those last fifteen years, the markers we look for as hints of sentience – that within their furry little heads there is a quality of “what it’s like for that animal to be itself” – …
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