The Alien Intelligence in Your Pocket:
Are you sure that chatbot isn’t alive?
theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/ai-consciousness/683983/
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field that develops and studies software enabling machines to exhibit intelligent behavior
the state or quality of sentience or awareness of internal or external existence
program or set of instructions that simulates conversation with humans
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