Consciousness: Concepts, Theories, and Neural Networks

How can we tell if AI ever becomes conscious?

Stephanie Shen
Towards Data Science
18 min readMar 13, 2024

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Consciousness is a heavy quest that has puzzled philosophers for over two thousand years. Because of its subjectivity and elusiveness, it was not a subject for scientific study until recent decades. With the unprecedented advances of artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, the remarkable…

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