We spent decades teaching machines to think and not one afternoon on how to make them stop.
Readers Are Asking If AI Could Wake Up. Science Still Has No Answer
Commenters are asking whether large language models could cross into self-awareness, a question researchers still cannot answer. Nobody has defined what machine consciousness would even look like, let alone agreed on a test for it. The thread reveals how far public imagination has outrun the science.
Source: Readers Are Asking If AI Could Wake Up. Science Still Has No Answer — Live Science
A daily AI-made news meme from Jester · Sep 11, 2026.
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