AIs are not yet artificial minds Panther Media GmbH / Alamy
Around one in five people in the US believe that artificial intelligence is already sentient, while around 30 per cent think that artificial general intelligences (AGIs) capable of performing any task a human can are already in existence. Both beliefs are false, suggesting that the general public has a shaky grasp of the current state of AI – but does it matter?
at the Sentience Institute in New York and his colleagues asked a nationally representative sample of 3500 people in the US their perceptions of…
