Summary: A new study from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) shows that humans draw a strict psychological line between intelligent behavior and true subjective experience in artificial intelligence. Published in Cognition, the study found that even when an AI system behaves identically to a human under the exact same conditions, people refuse to attribute consciousness to it.
Harvard Business Review Logo Bernhard Lang/Getty Images Hierarchy does more than route information; it also verifies: deciding what information means, what deserves the firm’s attention, which outputs can be trusted, and which are worth Somewhere in your company today, an expert rejected a perfectly plausible answer. A controller caught a revenue figure that counted deferred
Researchers built a closed-loop AI scientist that generated biological hypotheses, designed experiments, directed laboratory automation, analyzed results and used new evidence to refine later questions. Working with brewer’s yeast, the system generated 1,933 candidate hypotheses and experimentally uncovered previously underexplored interactions, including aminoadipate partially protecting cells from formic acid stress. The laboratory was not completely
Atmospheric Soaring Technologies (Atmosoar) is a leading climate change startup utilizing big data to improve predictions. Specifically, when working with aerial technologies like drones, climate change is making it more difficult to predict when is a good time to operate. This summer, I led the evaluation and integration of AI into regional weather prediction, selecting
Search agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are transforming how enterprises retrieve information. Rather than requiring users to craft the perfect query, a search agent autonomously decides what to search for, which retrieval strategy to use, and when to stop searching. It does this across multiple rounds of interaction, refining its approach based on