Can AI Be Conscious?
Experts debate the possibility at a symposium in honor of Daniel Dennett, and most agree it’s not a good thing
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Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
A member of the Tufts faculty since 2003, he studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
AI Needs to Work on Its Conversation Game
Researchers discover why AI does a poor job of knowing when to chime in on a conversation
The Sign of a Great Mentor: An Appreciation of Daniel Dennett
I spent so much time thinking with him and reading him that I find an unconscious influence within me now
Remembering Daniel C. Dennett, University and Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
Daniel C. Dennett, a once-in-a-generation scholar, teacher, and colleague, passed away early this morning
Daniel Dennett’s Been Thinking About Thinking—and AI
The longtime philosophy professor recounts his eventful life in a new book, celebrates evolution, and issues a warning about what’s really dangerous about AI
AI Chatbots Work by Predicting the Next Word. So Do Our Brains. Is There a Connection?
A cognitive scientist studying language comprehension explains the difference between how the likes of ChatGPT work and how we think—and what we can learn from that.
Celebration of Faculty
An event to honor the Dennett Stibel Professorship of Cognitive Science and the Stibel Family Assistant Professorship of Brain and Cognitive Science.
Cognition All the Way Down
University Professor in the Department of Philosophy Daniel Dennett and Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, co-author this article in Aeon.