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Can a robot ever be conscious and how would we know if it were?

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Can a robot ever be conscious and how would we know if it were?

Some people think we could easily build and identify a conscious robot, while others insist that it’s impossible – it all depends on what you think consciousness is.

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What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve?

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What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve?

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Life

Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico hunt in shifts to avoid each other

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vampire bat

Life

Female vampire bats groom each other and share their food

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Meerkats hugging each other

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Meerkats in zoos don’t put as much effort into social niceties

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computer simulations

Technology

AIs don't understand simple physics like a ball rolling down a hill

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

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eel

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Young eels escape from the mouths of fish by wriggling out the gills

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Facebook AI aims to identify deepfake images and trace their creators

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Facebook AI aims to identify deepfake images and trace their creators

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Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size

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Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size

Our understanding of how domestication changes the neurobiology of a species may be wrong, results from a 60-year experiment to breed tame foxes suggest. The findings could also have implications for human evolution, claim researchers

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Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

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DeepMind AI taught digital people to play football from scratch

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‘Hangry’ male fruit flies attack each other if they go without food

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Anthropomania review: Our love of animals and how we live with them

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