The people who think AI might become conscious

BBC Listen to this article. I step into the booth with some trepidation. I am about to be subjected to strobe lighting while music plays – as part of a research project trying to understand what makes us truly human. It’s an experience that brings to mind the test in the science fiction film Bladerunner,…

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NotebookLM introduces public notebooks for sharing

Many people who use NotebookLM already share their notebooks with classmates, coworkers, students and friends. Today, we’re making sharing and curation easier — with public links. Now, you can share a notebook publicly with anyone using NotebookLM with a single link, whether it’s an overview of your nonprofit’s projects, product manuals for your business or…

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As Immigration Protests Grip California, Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain

As Democratic senators gathered on Tuesday for their closed-door weekly luncheon, they heard from their California colleagues, Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, who carefully differentiated between isolated cases of vandalism in Los Angeles and the larger number of peaceful protesters who swarmed the streets to oppose President Trump’s deportation efforts. At roughly the same time,…

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