Source: Bert de Tilly, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Since the 1970s, scientists have employed the mirror test as an assay of self-awareness. If an animal or child ...

A robot in New York has passed the classic ‘wise men puzzle’ used to test whether a machine is ‘self-aware’. The logic puzzle involves a fictional king who is set the task of choosing a new advisor ...

IN A robotics lab on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, New York, three small humanoid robots have a conundrum to solve. They are told that two of them have been given a “dumbing pill” that stops ...

New research published in Frontiers in Psychology has found that artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT was able to outperform humans on an emotional awareness test. Researchers prompted the chatbot ...