| 单词 | sentient |
| 例句 | Talking to his father made Dill feel like he was talking to a sentient brick wall that somehow knew about Jesus. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It’s the fastest download ever, like it’s some sentient being who understands the whole point of its existence is that time is running out for someone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But we seek the dominant intelligences, the grandest creatures on the planet, the sentient and graceful masters of the deep ocean, the great whales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, a number of the more sentient residents seem to recognize me at the lunch service. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Send him to the control room. We’ll want a sentient being there to monitor things and, as I understand it, he used to work there.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Me: Are we really discussing Google like it’s a sentient being? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It was not normal fire; Crabbe had used a curse of which Harry had no knowledge: As they turned a corner the flames chased them as though they were alive, sentient, intent upon killing them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “No. I’m just sick of the question. I mean, I’m vegetarian because I think it’s wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Once again, the jungle felt massive, dense, and even sentient. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Let us assume that there is, indeed, sentient life in one or another part of remote space, and that we will be successful in getting in touch with it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just mean, like, a baby isn’t sentient, but a baby is still a person.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I am to be a clean writer, of the most reasonable eye, and present the subject in question like some sentient machine of transcription. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It frightened him that he slept well at nights, that he was still calmed by the scent of orange leaves and the turquoise stillness of the sea, that he was sentient. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Every sentient being straining and pushing at the shell of identity and distinctness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Later Yen taught us, ‘After life, the rational soul ascends the dragon; the sentient soul descends the dragon. So in the world there can be no ghosts. This thing must have been a Fox Spirit.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After donning a suit of sentient armor, he returned to 20th century earth where he became a hero. After long hiatus, Valiant Comics returning in May 2012-01-17T16:53:08Z What, any sentient viewer must wonder, were he and Mary Boone thinking? Art Review: ?Eric Fischl: Portraits? at Mary Boone Gallery 2012-03-01T23:52:35Z His Doom Patrol featured a gang of supervillains called The Brotherhood of Dada, a sentient piece of roadway called Danny the Street and a painting that ate Paris. Grant Morrison, The Invisibles and the comics that put novels in the shade 2010-12-19T22:30:01Z “Mitropoulos appeared to be a fanatic who had sold his soul to music” wrote a local critic, who described conducting “so full of blood, muscle, and nerves as to seem alive and sentient.” A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z While land mammals are usually killed using gas chambers or electrical stunning, there have been similar criticisms in relation to large-brained and sentient species, including cows and pigs. Why the ethics of octopus farming are so troubling 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z A fetus cannot survive outside of a womb and a womb cannot exist without a mother, an already-formed, completely sentient human being. Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The sentient, sensitive, possibly treacherous robot is hardly a novelty in this kind of movie, and David is partly a collage of cinematic allusions. Movie Review: ‘Prometheus,’ by Ridley Scott, With Noomi Rapace 2012-06-07T12:44:28Z She is the embodiment of “those who are to come” – not hosts and not guests, but sentient robots ready to assume their dominion. Westworld finale recap – robot army, assemble! 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z All this work, trying to sneak in a vegetable whenever I have a moment of downtime, is starting to make me feel less like a person and more like a sentient composter. The 10-a-day diet tested: 'I feel like a sentient composter' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Or indeed if the hosts of Westworld are actually robots and not sentient beings, only made of silicon. Westworld recap: episode two – do androids dream of electric slaughter? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Surely, in terms of the prospect of immortality, all sentient beings stand or fall together. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z His work may feature SF's faster-than-light travel and sentient tattoos, but he rejects its appetite for heroes, which he considers to be "pernicious … a lie about the way the universe is constructed". M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z Whole it's encouraging to see the brown chickens scampering about, and with the body type of a more normal bird, the entire business of commodifying a sentient being is revolting. A Chicken That Grows Slower and Tastes Better 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Sam Mayfair has been operating in the dark for as long as she’s been sentient, her need for pain and pleasure twinned from the earliest age. Dark Side of the Soul 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z And nature will be just fine regardless of what we sentient apes believe—or do. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Godzilla’ is an anti-global-warming alarmism blockbuster 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z A sentient Glow Cloud hovers in a sky filled with surveillance helicopters. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z On Kill the Messenger, Cuomo complains of "no fun", as though he's the first sentient being to experience ennui. New band of the day: The Orwells (No 1,519) 2013-05-24T15:02:04Z Notice that the Ghost warriors did not obey commands from Stubbs to freeze - a sign that they are sentient - and achieving sentience is what Arnold is all about. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z What draws us to him is the eloquence with which he articulates forbidden feelings that most sentient human beings have shared at one point or another in their long and at times overwhelming journey. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z She ended up writing a story about a teenage boy who feels attracted to his sister's Barbie, a doll that is a walking, talking, sentient being, albeit only 11.5 inches tall. AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud' 2013-06-07T19:00:03Z Your next movie, “Bad Hair,” is about a woman who’s possessed by a sentient killer weave. Why the Creator of ‘Dear White People’ Is Doubling Down on Identity Politics 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z By contrast, Post Malone offers every bad mash-up of toxic Americana, the perversion of proud outlaw genius warped into a sentient barbed-wire stick and poke tattoo. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z As the number of people who want to consume in ways that respect all sentient beings, living ethically will become easier. Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z An uncharitable read would be to suggest that riding with Rigsby is like hitting the gym with a sentient BuzzFeed quiz. Peloton star Cody Rigsby says you did not survive a pandemic to do anything but thrive 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z He then moved on to her husband, “a sentient Kohl’s mannequin that read a book once”, and Oliver showed pictures of various meetings in the White House that Jared attended. John Oliver on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: president 'can't even get nepotism right' 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Robots becoming sentient is only interesting if those robots are worth saving, and Westworld will only gain our trust if the abuse of robots is dramatically and philosophically distinct from the suffering of actual humans. The Good, the Meh and the Ugly: are Westworld's villains firing blanks? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z At least the ones in “Misdemeanor Dream,” who tell tales in English and Native languages, but also via movement and dance, of the births of constellations, the celestial romance that begets all sentient life. Review: In ‘Misdemeanor Dream,’ Speaking to the Unseen 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z New York City is a living, sentient organism in Jemisin’s latest novel. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Drawn in an elongated manner that makes them look like sentient carrots, the family members include three children — strange daughter, crude son, slightly evil younger daughter — and their mother, Linda, the show’s best comic creation. | 'Bob?s Burgers': This Family Restaurant Is All About the People 2011-01-06T22:55:57Z There are images of birds among the calligraphic designs, flying in the face of Islam’s prohibition of representing sentient beings. In Andalusia’s three key cities, one of history’s great architectural mash-ups 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z We still don’t know if these are mini sentient spacecrafts, nor do we know what they want, but it becomes clear they mean business. Star Trek Beyond: 13 reasons to get excited about the new trailer 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Books for younger readers are displayed alongside the large storefront windows, which are opposite a mural of the Doom Patrol, oddball heroes who include a sentient street named Danny. In New York, Every Borough Is a Comic Book Destination 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z People no longer see elephants as circus performers, he said, "but sentient animals that are capable of a full range of human emotions." Elephants have given their final performance at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z But utilitarianism broadens the scope of the moral community to include the interests of all sentient beings, including those of nonhuman animals. The $70 billion Americans spend on pets could do more good 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The girl is in utero when the play begins, but sentient all the same, and already fond of her toddler big brother. Review: Channeling Anger in ‘A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z But it doesn’t matter if we call them public relations experts, background vetters, wrong ’un sniffer-outers, or simply sentient humans over the age of 18 who can read. Is there a way out of the Epstein mess? Prince Andrew hasn't put his fat finger on it 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z But on Tuesday, the skirt made it clear — because the skirt is now sentient, with its own Instagram account and everything — that it’s not going anywhere. Brief Encounters With a Micro Miniskirt 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Star Wars” had a magical energy field called the Force, sentient droids, bizarre aliens, faster than light travel, lightsabers, and moon-sized battle stations that could destroy a planet with one blast of its laser. Our new post-Obama “Star Wars”: Race, the Force and the dark side in modern America 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Their aim is to supplant us with sentient android hosts, and their tactics are frighteningly efficient, heartless. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z And on behalf of many sentient humans living on this planet, Artie Lange, let me say that we too would rather you were loading trucks for a living. Artie Lange is being oppressed by the PC police 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z He had graduated from college, been hired on contract in the communications department at Oculus and was living, working, breathing as a sentient adult for the first time. For hikers, Yosemite National Park rewards originality 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z “Rise” was about how people treat and mistreat animals, about the tension between recognizing them as sentient beings and the long habit of exploiting and confining them. Review: New ‘Planet of the Apes’ Makes You Root Against Your Species 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z On the contrary, this is a show that actually wants the viewer to trust her base of knowledge while being open to expanding her understanding of what it means to be sentient. “Westworld” season finale: Violent delights, violent ends and new questions 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z All over the country the past month, Xbox units have been flickering to life, dutifully obeying Aaron Paul's disembodied voice, like a Kubrick movie about machines becoming sentient. For Aaron Paul, seeking good after 'Bad' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z He’s 101 when the story begins, in a nursing home, and just barely sentient. He’s 101, She’s 32, and It’s the End of the World 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Why are we so fascinated by stories about sentient robots, rapacious A.I. and the rise of thinking machines? When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “Fluent in at least three languages,” for instance, plays with contrasting forms — organic, crystalline, geometric — that intersect and interact in ways that almost make them feel sentient. ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z One is the Iraqi novelist Ahmed Saadawi’s “Frankenstein in Baghdad,” a bitterly funny fable about a junk peddler who unwittingly creates a sentient monster out of the body parts strewn in the streets by explosions. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z If you’re still sentient five hours later, whatever you just ingested is probably fine. Mud, Worms and Ropes: A One-Day Survival Course 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z “He is recognisable,” said Prue, who must have recently had a nightmare where Louis Theroux morphed into a sentient ball of vomit and attempted to eat her eyeballs. 'It looks like a haunted waxwork': The Great British Bake Off bust cakes – ranked! 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z To make matters worse, your head is the exact size and shape of the statue’s head, so you’ve ended up looking like its bizarrely sentient shadow. Weaponised teeth and shifty Sam Rockwell: the 2018 Oscars class photo decoded 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z But for those who were of sentient age during those years, the return of some of these trends can elicit strong reactions, like a jarring visit from the ghost of your past. Are You Ready for Dresses Over Jeans Again? 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Thousands of years ago an alien race sent "seekers" to every planet in the universe with sentient life. Stan Lee reveals details of new comic "Seekers" 2011-07-22T23:00:05Z That the tumor had a sentient human host seemed utterly irrelevant to him. Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z There is basic pain in being sentient, in being witness to the phenomenal existence of the world without any answer as to why. “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z A sentient pool of blood that ebbs and gushes around the two men implies violence, but what kind of violence? ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z When Bernard threatens Ford with an exodus of sentient hosts, Ford doesn’t stress. 7 Major Westworld Revelations 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Published in 1966, "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" tells the story of a lunar colony's rebellion against Earth organized by a computer technician, a political agitator, an academic and a sentient supercomputer. Director Bryan Singer to take on Heinlein's 'Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z "Children are astute observers of tone – they loathe adults who patronise them with a passion, adults who somehow assume they are not sentient beings because they are children," she said. Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children 2011-02-11T12:50:24Z Then he’s infected with Venom, a sentient alien being that controls his body and gives him superhuman abilities. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “Skorpions,” for example, involves a padded garment threaded with nitinol wires; when a performer wears the garment, electrical currents pulse through the wires to make them contract, making the dress writhe like a sentient creature. Turning Bridges Into Music 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z A main conceit of “True” is that nature is alive and sentient. New at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: A Sunny Little Cloud 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The first time I watched "Encanto," I thought, man, the lockdowns would have been much easier if I lived in the Madrigals' capacious, sentient Casita. Forget Bruno. “Dos Oruguitas” is the "Encanto" song we really need 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z This would be a death sentence if it weren’t for the sentient alien Sophie befriends. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Ultron became sentient and rebelled, as machines always tend to do in these sorts of situations. A Comic Book Dummy's Guide to the Marvel Universe Plan 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In a surreal twist, the dead persist as sentient machines called “companions,” devices that dying people upload their consciousnesses into. Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z His next work, “BOB,” was not merely unpredictable in this way but arguably sentient: a quasi-intelligent computer program that assumed physical form as an enormous, red, ever-changing, snakelike creature behind a wall of glass. Very Personal Computing: In Artist’s New Work, A.I. Meets Fatherhood 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z We can debate the sentience of animals with animal rights activists all day long, but hitchBOT was very clearly not sentient. The easy morality of Cecil the Lion: Our problem isn’t too much outrage — it’s that we can’t summon enough 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The person on the quest goes into nature for several days to communicate with a sacred, sentient Earth, in search of answers to a big life question, or to mark a transition. ‘I cultivated a joy in little things ’ - coping with isolation in the wild 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z A person I once knew, who was not a sentient inspirational poster, was fond of saying that in the end, people don't regret things they've done, only the things they didn't do. How to make a sbagliato, the friendly cousin of the Negroni that's a perfect match for a watch party 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z “We have them fighting sentient gorillas the week before, so for us it’s not any crazier or sillier that they’re singing,” he said. Can Superheroes Sing? The Flash and Supergirl Give It a Whirl 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z There are sentient robots and cyborgs and giant birds that live amongst other mythical creatures in the Wildlands and hunt humans. Rion Amilcar Scott on Haircutting and Intimacy 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Then, beginning in 1974, the show began to stretch, immune to the plight of East Coast viewers and sentient life-forms unsympathetic to canned banter. Listen up, Oscar-show planners: ideas to make it better 2014-02-20T19:27:48Z That breasts do not exist just to turn on other people will not come as a surprise to any sentient adult human being. Jolie has done something extraordinary 2013-05-14T13:48:10Z This question brings home not only what entertainment animals endure, but also how our companion animals, who aren’t any more sentient than the animals used in entertainment, nevertheless enjoy a higher status. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Monroe is lured into aborting that pregnancy, but when she conceives a second time, her sentient fetus reappears. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The canine robot is designed to explore remote and hazardous environments, places where sentient, sober humans fear to tread. Spot is the $74,500 robot dog of our dystopian dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Same for "seven"; "sentient", "sex", "sell" – all fine, but try getting me to say "seven". Stammering: lost for words 2011-01-09T20:29:00Z If it is wrong to inflict unwanted pain and death on a sentient being, then it is wrong to hunt. Searching for answers: How to understand the morality of hunting 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z But I Am Legend's monsters are sentient, and work to reduce the effects of their infection, until they effectively become a new race of humans. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z In the seventh installment, notoriously rogue spy Ethan Hunt is tasked with finding the key that controls the sentient AI called "The Entity" that can manipulate digital reality. Tom Cruise, our messy messiah of movies 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z When thinking about creating the most good possible, effective altruism maintains that people should reflect on how the allocation of their resources such as their money and time impacts other sentient beings. The $70 billion Americans spend on pets could do more good 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Deckard's mission is to "retire" them, but the reason behind the replicants' return is interestingly emotive: they wish to lead their own lives, as is the right of any sentient being. Blade Runner: No 3 2010-10-21T10:52:00Z Its huge eyes somehow combine approachability with a terrifying lack of any discernible sentient feeling whatsoever. Screen burn 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z That this way of reading is, now, essential to the practice of any halfway serious reader or fractionally sentient critic is due, in no small part, to Morrison’s radiating influence. The Indelible Substance of a Semester with Toni Morrison 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z If the book were sentient and knew that it had become some kind of sacred cow, I think it would be delighted for us to tip that cow over.” ‘Dick’: An American literary classic as a ribald card game 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z "I don't feel that sense of concern about a sentient AI," he shrugs. Two men, one robot, many questions 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “When we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment.” Joaquin Phoenix's Oscars speech casts him as Hollywood's poster boy of progress | Steve Rose 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The aliens employ hulking, not quite sentient tin cans that look like larger and more lethal cousins of the Minions. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Listen, as A.I. is continuing to develop, and we don’t know if we’re making ourselves extinct to any potential sentient being, Brown is on his best behavior. Sterling K. Brown Is on His Best Behavior, Just in Case 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Their eyes bulge and stare in a manner that is perhaps meant to suggest the strangeness of their predicament but really just appear hugely inane; these are sentient beings, I suppose, but not very. Dance Review: Tumbles and Twitches in an Alien World Undersea or in Outer Space 2011-07-12T21:00:01Z Donald J. Trump was “an oddly tinted compilation of psychiatric symptoms” and a “sentient Caps Lock button.” Review: Samantha Bee’s Fierce, Fiery Feminism Anchors ‘Full Frontal’ 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Yet “Making a Literary Life” ends on an almost theological note: “We live in a beautiful, sentient universe that yearns for you to tell the truth about it.” Post critic Carolyn See stood up to tastemakers and became one of her own 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Then there's the uncomfortable truth that sentient animals have to die in order for us to eat meat. The rise of the flexitarian diet: Is a social omnivore diet the way of the future? 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z She is a sentient being who grips the gilt-edged rim and stares into the ewer’s depths like a priestess awaiting divination from the gods. Gouthière at the Frick: Gilding the Lily (and Everything Else) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Some might think these kitty pix are doomed to collect dust on grandma’s Facebook wall until computers become sentient. #BrusselsLockdown flooded with cat pics: Belgian police request social media blackout, lolcats ensue 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Meanwhile the male leads in those 10 films are a solider, a scientist, a con man, a middle-aged super spy, an abusive billionaire, a sports coach, a businessman, and a sentient sea sponge. Why Disney's New Cinderella Is the Anti-Frozen 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The challenge was working together so Jabba looked like one sentient creature, and not four guys in a tent. Jabba The Hutt's 'left hand man' 2013-10-15T06:28:09Z Intoned with studied gravitas by a cable news reporter, that villainous lineup acquires a polarizing new entry in a sentient teddy bear named Winkie. | 'Clifford Chase's Winkie': A Teddy Bear on the Hot Seat, With Hysteria Swirling All Around 2011-03-13T21:45:10Z Every sentient Gypsy male wanted to challenge his dominance. Books of The Times: ?Gypsy Boy,? a Memoir by Mikey Walsh 2012-02-16T15:29:02Z He is exactly the same as a heap of laundry: smelly, inert, almost sentient but not quite. Marriage Requires Amnesia 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Pasternak is tall and leggy, with a Cheshire-cat grin that lends her the air of a sentient Al Hirschfeld cartoon—she’s polished but unpretentious. The Next Steps for the Brooklyn Museum 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Each delivers the sense of an especially sentient human being seeking to explain something that matters. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z That’s the difference, I think, between a haunted house movie and a gothic romance—essentially in a haunted house movie, the house is in itself a sentient entity. Guillermo del Toro on Strong Women and the Haunted House in 'Crimson Peak' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z But, if you take Fox News host Tucker Carlson seriously — which, like all sentient beings, I certainly do not — that’s what was called for. Perspective | Tucker Carlson’s latest idiocy on masks is dangerous and hypocritical even by his usual standards 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z And their goal, as with all sentient beings, is to replicate. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z If you’re looking for fodder for your thinky pieces, try to remember that people with cancer – even people with advanced cancer – are sentient humans and deserve the respect and dignity of basic accuracy in reporting. Awful cancer writers say you just don’t understand them 2014-01-14T16:30:00Z “The idea of Buddhism is to free oneself from the cycle of suffering and then help all sentient beings to be free,” he says. Eric Ripert: the Buddhist Michelin star chef who changed my life 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z A block of short films called Welcome To The Zone kicks things off with topics as freaky as mind control, cloning, alien abduction, the Turing Test and malevolent, sentient bathroom sensors. Philip K Dick film festival: still dreaming of electric sheep 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z But they said Ms. Cusack brings a sentient clarity and depth to the material. Carmen Cusack Puts ‘Her Pain and Her Joy’ Into a Leading Broadway Role 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Instead, I literally looked the fact that it was a sentient being in the eye. For the love of all that is delicious, why don't we eat duck more often in this country? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z The most powerful of these is Supercollider, a sentient battering ram of blond hair and wide shoulders. The Freelance Life, but With Superheroes 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Roughly a million Soviet women fought in World War II. Dozens of them, in this volume, gather around Alexievich as if she were a sentient campfire. Russian Women Speak Up About the Front Lines and the Home Front 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z As they drove through a bleak, rundown Louisiana landscape, Cohle cryptically referred to “sentient meat” and once again lectured his partner on the meaninglessness of life. The TV Watch: ‘True Detective’ Finds Philosophical Answers by Season’s End 2014-03-10T04:11:00Z A former server is more likely to treat wait staff as sentient beings, yes, but I’d like to think we also retain some measure of empathy, too, much as we try to squelch it. Everyone should wait tables 2013-12-14T00:00:00Z In fact, he shows a deep need to engage with his fellow sentient beings. Five things we learned from the Blade Runner 2049 shorts 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Though the Fyre documentaries are stocked with associates who swear to McFarland’s charm, he appears to have all the appeal of a sentient airport lounge. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z All franchises have their implausibilities, whether it’s Transformers’ sentient cars or the Fast and Furious’ sentient Vin Diesels. How did Mission: Impossible become Hollywood's most reliable franchise? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Toaster, the plucky leader of a gang of sentient appliances, leads them on a grand adventure to find their old "master," a boy named Rob. 10 Most Notable – and Often Creepy – Clowns in Pop Culture 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z “If it involves the suffering of a sentient being …” “What would you rather have: a few dead dogs or penicillin?” I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z “That’s right, this sentient circus peanut now holds the future of a major political party in his tiny, raccoon paw-sized hands,” he said. John Oliver Calls Rodrigo Duterte the ‘Trump of the East’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Like any sentient being, I’d been shocked and disgusted by the Weinstein revelations and saw no reason to equivocate about the reliability of his accusers or the severity of his punishment. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Representative who was particularly diligent at fundraising into “a sentient storage container for canapés.” John Oliver Finds the Fun in Political Fundraising 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z If Westworld asks for suspension of disbelief and allows hosts to be sentient, two potholes yawn wide open. The Good, the Meh and the Ugly: are Westworld's villains firing blanks? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z There was a time when humans were familiar with the sentient forest; Nash opens the door to that world again. People tree 2010-05-14T23:20:00Z The sheer archness and treacle of Mr. Isherwood's review is enough to make anyone still sentient run for the hills.... Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z The sentient squid in “Arrival” are truly something to behold. The anti-“Gravity”: What “Arrival” gets right that Sandra Bullock’s space odyssey didn’t 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Not that the North also had a race problem; no sentient American should be able to forget that. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Added to this is the serious moral issue of confining sentient creatures to industrial food systems. Why the ethics of octopus farming are so troubling 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Directed by Joss Whedon and set for release May 1, "Ultron" takes its name from a sentient android designed by Iron Man, a.k.a. 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' trailer: Heroes face their demons, evil robot 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z As a sentence about America, it has it all: heterodoxy, entrepreneurialism, cultural appropriation, sexual repression, and a town that could have been named by the Protestant work ethic made sentient. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z They both come to the end of the maze and evolve into good sentient beings. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, and curiously for a 21st-century sentient teenager with a phone in her back pocket, Lea seems not to have watched a single movie, television show, newscast, Instagram story or viral TikTok about human trafficking. ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ Review: A Teen’s Cautionary Tale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The weirdly sentient fish capture the haplessness of adulthood, the struggle to hold it together and the absurdity of it all. Deep sense of mystery pervades Peter Zokosky's paintings 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z We also hear Angela tell ManInBlack that the Maze isn't meant for him - a hint that the Maze is really a trial test for sentience, which isn't applicable to the already sentient humans. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Her powers are the only thing stopping her from becoming a sentient promotional tool for Eggo. Strangerer things: what's next for the Netflix smash? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Or maybe it's just because I'm a human being who recognizes that teenagers are also sentient human beings. Brett Kavanaugh and the convenience of “youthful mistakes” 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Ganna’s creation extolled Buddhist principles as well as such universal ideals as kindness, acceptance and respect for all sentient beings. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z He ended up explaining why all music is fundamentally sad: As sentient beings, we’re always departing an irretrievable present, which leaves us in a perpetual “state of melancholy” — a sorrow that infuses all knowledge. For Cass McCombs, the truth is blowing in the apocalyptic breeze 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z But human beings at our best are so creative and inventive, and we can create, develop and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and the environment. Joaquin Phoenix's Oscars speech in full: 'We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby' 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s the chronic, continuing stress, the kind that every sentient being is likely experiencing right now, that takes a toll on the skin. This Is Your Skin on Stress 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z In one respect the song is a piece of musical genius to which any sentient audience will positively respond. Gilberto Gil: from 60s activism to Womad 2013 2013-07-17T18:00:00Z In a way the book provides that balance because I spent the preceding 40-plus years of my life as a sentient human being not discussing my life and now I have shared it. Comics and sci-fi powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski has an incredible origin story of his own 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Given that animals are acutely sentient in the important ways – I'm not talking about building computers or reading books – we need to expand our moral circle to include them. Jonathan Balcombe: 'Stop being beastly to hens 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z But after a few years of mechanically rearranging sounds into sentences, Big Sean has begun to become sentient. Reviews: New Albums From Big Sean, Emile Haynie and DRKWAV 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Zombies, formerly sentient individuals doomed to mindlessly serve a hunger that can never be fully satiated, are typically interpreted as stand-ins for the exploited masses. Beware the rise of vampire shows. It could mean a recession is looming 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z There are some pretty weird Pixar fan theories out there, including the one about the seminal animation house’s entire canon representing a 65m-year struggle between humans, sentient toys and intelligent animals. It's all connected! Pixar and the history of surprising film and TV shared universes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z It is based around the musings of a sentient robot named Eager, some time in the near future. Eager by Helen Fox ? review 2011-03-28T10:38:18Z But even if they aren't sentient, we should respect them and that relates to the broader issues of our relationship to animals. Jonathan Balcombe: 'Stop being beastly to hens 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z Thus "the last sentient being in the universe" ought to "treat the corpse of the next-to-last one with dignity". Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z Beth, on the other hand, started off as a sentient version of a freshly ignited piece of charcoal and has since gone from smoldering to red hot and now white hot. "Yellowstone" depicts strong women as unhinged lunatics 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z From works by a much-hyped young artist to paintings so powerfully vibrant they almost seem sentient, there's lots of exciting art to see in Pioneer Square's galleries — and streets. Gallery Walk: Postcards from a trip through Pioneer Square’s galleries and graffiti 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Had I been more sentient, I’m sure I would forever associate lox with horror. The foreskin and the hindsight 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Besides, thanks to T'Challa's influence, there's no mad titan trying to wipe out half of all sentient life in existence. Chadwick Boseman's posthumous Marvel performance packs an emotional wallop befitting his legacy 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z But unlike many works for acoustic instruments and electronics written today, this one remained clear in its distinction between sounds created by sentient beings and those emitted by machines. Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner Disguised as Bartok 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But if you watch it, you can click to a link that will patch you directly to your United States senator's office to voice your support, as a constituent and sentient human, for healthcare rights. Scarlett Johansson stands with Planned Parenthood 2011-04-08T14:53:00Z If you look at it from a population outcome, it's a very different outcome than if you look at it as individuals, but it's individuals who are sentient. Jonathan Balcombe: 'Stop being beastly to hens 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z In his second novel, 1976’s “Beasts,” humans and genetically engineered sentient animals make their way across a near-future U.S. devastated by civil wars and a totalitarian government. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Bernard has taken his own “life” after becoming sentient. 7 Major Westworld Revelations 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z “But ‘The Secret Life of Plants’ is very much about plants being in their own ways sentient, intelligent, and extrasensory in the sense that for example they're able to physically react to human thought.” A new generation of “plant music” blossoms amidst the Millennial-fueled houseplant boom 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z One of the most notable ethical traditions – utilitarianism – has had a lot to say about how other sentient beings, besides humans, should be treated along with how resources ought to be distributed among them. The $70 billion Americans spend on pets could do more good 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z They do not quite belong to this world, you sense, and they threaten to malfunction or become sentient at any second. For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z This Mem, who calls herself Elsie, is the only Mem in history to become sentient. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z When a soldier from the future is sent back in time to protect the eventual leader of humanity's war against sentient machines, an unexpected turn of events fractures the timeline and alters his mission. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z I play a guy crowdfunding his cancer care who finds that his brain tumor is sentient — voiced by Laurie Anderson, naturally. John Cameron Mitchell Finds Joy in Mavis Staples and ‘Veneno’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z And there’s the Enemy–the malevolent, sentient killing machines like the Cylons and the Terminator. Review: Humans is a Robot Chiller for the Smartphone Era 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “Dogs were not considered sentient in 1952,” he writes, by way of explaining that pets were believed to have no souls. An Encyclopedic Novel Intent on Reliving the Baby Boomers’ Touchstone Moments. All of Them. 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Trauma is our special legacy as sentient beings, creatures burdened with the knowledge of our own impermanence; our symbolic experience with it is one of the things that separates us from the animal kingdom. “There is no cure for trauma. Once it enters the body, it stays there forever” 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The book had some amazing concepts of a sentient drug that chooses you. ArtsBeat: Just So You Know: 'John Dies at the End' 2013-01-24T19:00:30Z When we dictate the movements of sentient beings, we turn them into mere machines, no different than those remote-controlled airplanes Maharbiz was trying to emulate. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z The charismatic actors struggle, through no fault of their own, to share scenes with sentient fenders. ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Review: Here Come the Grease Monkeys 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z In one shot, these big, sentient mammals convulsing on the beach make a noise that sounds like screaming. 'We were trying not to get hit by their tails' – how I filmed the Faroe whale hunt 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Now there’s a pop quiz for every sentient soul. ‘S O S: Poems 1961-2013,’ Works by Amiri Baraka 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Your mileage will vary, but if you like your apocalyptic fare sweet and silly, start with “When the Yogurt Took Over,” a tale of sentient dairy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z No sentient being could argue with the benefits of light, air, nature, the rejection of an institutional feel or what staff and patients keep calling the "calm" atmosphere. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z Since oysters don't have brains and are incapable of moving on their own, it could be argued they aren't sentient. Why do some vegans eat oysters? 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z In the film Superman is called “America’s drone”, albeit a sentient one who can question motive. Kill shots: why cinema has drone warfare in its sights 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “It would be analogous to not telling a sentient adult that they have cancer.” V-word vs. P-word 2012-06-26T15:57:00Z Big. cartoony ones, cast in low relief, dominate the two large trophies, staring out, making them feel sentient. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The sentient cellphone, played by Thomas Piper, belongs to a 15-year-old boy, who has it confiscated by his teacher. Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But, after all, you’re an animal, a sentient being: Put yourself in it and the physical world has its way with you. Perspective | I’ve seen plenty of beautiful artworks. But the Matisse Chapel overwhelmed me. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Inspired by a line of Hasbro toys from the 1980s, the "Transformers" movies depict warring bands of giant, sentient robots from the planet Cybertron that can shape-shift into cars and other vehicles. Shia LaBeouf: 'I have these yearnings to do different things' 2011-06-27T23:31:38Z But there’s good reason to believe that plants are sentient, too. Why it’s impossible to actually be a vegetarian 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z "You, or the sentient computer pretending to talk on your behalf?" Stephen Hawking displays great comic timing with John Oliver 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Personally, the plight of tiny, barely sentient humans trying to make a name for themselves in Hollywood does not move me. The secret lives of moviestar newborns: who are they, and what is all that goo? 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Making contact with an unexpectedly sentient species was explored in the third season of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” in an episode called “Evolution.” ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 8: A Little Harmony 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Every time I read another dire warning about computers becoming sentient and taking over the world, I’m comforted by watching my iMac try to address an envelope. Viva la typewriter! 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z They’re manufactured clones of the Angels, who share ninety-nine per cent of their genetic material with humans, distinguishing them from super robots like the Transformers, which are sentient but alien by design. How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Spun off from Jemisin’s 2016 short story “The City Born Great,” the novel figures cities as living, sentient organisms that are “born” into human avatars, midwifed by the previous city to be delivered into sentience. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Despite this, many people lack basic knowledge about chicken biology and fail to view these widely misunderstood birds as fellow sentient creatures. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z More Photos » Single-Page Scientists estimate that we reached Peak Superhero in the summer of 2008, when “The Dark Knight” sucked the attention of every critic, pundit and sentient moviegoer into its inky nexus. Movie Review: Robert Downey Jr. in ?The Avengers,? Directed by Joss Whedon 2012-05-04T13:44:22Z Some people have a problem with the killing of sentient creatures for food. Jay Rayner: thou shalt eat veg! 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Responsible for the deaths of billions of sentient beings. Jon Stewart’s epic “Daily Show” correspondent send-off: Colbert, Carell and Helms stopped in — and even Wyatt Cenac came by to make up 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z In the end the robot is more sentient than the men; and that’s the scariest part of all. Dance Review: Compagnie 111 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-11-13T23:46:35Z The "Guardians of the Galaxy" star, who played the heroic sentient tree Groot in the Marvel blockbuster, is expecting his third child with girlfriend Paloma Jimenez, according to People magazine. Vin Diesel, girlfriend Paloma Jimenez expecting baby No. 3 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Machado’s writing, with its heat and precise command of tone, has always had a sentient quality. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z You might feel “touched out”, they said, as if a sentient sack of potatoes were always, somehow, right on top of you. After giving birth to my first child, I wondered: would I ever want sex again? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Eunice proves to be the world’s first fully sentient artificial intelligence, smarter than any human but still somewhat inexperienced and naive. Review | An ‘app whisperer’ teams up with time travelers in William Gibson’s ‘Agency’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z I’m not about to start eating an animal that has been caged since birth, has been milked until it’s no longer useful, because someone thinks asparagus might be sentient. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z This swarm of ramming enemy vessels chase and smash into the hull of Starfleet’s flagship like a murmuration of sentient spaceships. Star Trek Beyond: 10 things we learned from the trailer 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s as if a singer at the height of her fame accidentally wandered into pop’s uncanny valley — a disconcerting gray zone between a superstar’s glazed image and the sentient being behind it. Perspective | Ariana Grande just stepped into pop’s uncanny valley, and everybody’s going nuts 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z In it, Vernon tries hard to entertain a new blue avian friend, unaware that Bird is not sentient but rather a wooden cuckoo fallen from a clock. Brief Tales for New Readers and Little Listeners From Philip Stead and More 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z His peaceful, pastoral life is disrupted by the unexpected reappearance of the Mechon, an army of sentient robots. Xenoblade Chronicles ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:24Z To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z One sentient branch of the tree of life is descended from the animals that crawled onto dry land hundreds of millions of years ago. The smart arms of the octopus 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The disappearance of Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter severs their fragile marriage, until the two are brought back together by a string of homicides and sentient, parasitic fungi. Newly Published, From Art Criminals to Sentient Fungi 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z I suspect that if you had a sentient machine, you’d have to start giving it pretty much what we currently call human rights. Why are we obsessed with robots? 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z I always thought my toys were sentient beings and that movie just served to confirm it. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Back in 2004, Wyle starred in three smart and entertaining TNT films that centered around the Library, a sentient repository of wisdom and mythical artifacts lying beneath the fictional Metropolitan Public Library in New York. 'The Librarians,' with Noah Wyle, opens fun new chapter on TNT 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z And then there's the pupa, a sentient supercomputer that will someday be capable of universal annihilation, but is currently a mewling blob carried by Terry in a Babybjörn. From "Solar Opposites" to "Midnight Gospel," recent otherworldly animation is worth the head-trip 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Interesting how men like O’Reilly would prefer to fancifully imagine what “the babies,” peacefully “ingesting” in the womb, would tell us rather than confront the realities of sentient adult women are saying right now. Bill O’Reilly speaks for the babies 2013-02-05T16:09:00Z He also named his son Dax, after the sentient, wormlike life-form in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, of which Bailey is an irritatingly blameless fan. The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z If you are a sports fan, as I am, and also a sentient human being, as at least a few of my readers are, you are aware of the stunningly insipid nature of sports interviews. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: When it comes to sports interviews, don’t be such a silly ask 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Strange cartoonish characters abound, including sentient animals, mainly dogs and horses — which are often the protagonists. Roy De Forest’s Greatness Shines Even in a Virtual Display 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Every sentient straight male in the country developed a schoolboy crush on Martha Quinn, one of the first V.J.’s, fresh out of New York University and so cute she could make your cranium detonate. Books of The Times: ?I Want My MTV,? by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum - Review 2011-10-24T23:31:14Z I understand that there had to have been a recording engineer nearby, cutting the wax, yet it still remains incredibly difficult for me to believe there was actually another sentient thing within a hundred-mile radius. Postscript: Gregg Allman, 1947-2017 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z They come to feel narrated by something like a timeless, sentient cloud. Books of The Times: ‘A Place in the Country,’ Essays by W. G. Sebald 2014-02-09T22:17:26Z If he did not exist, 21st-century popular culture would have to invent him: a sentient robot, an empathetic space alien, a warm-blooded salamander with crazy sex appeal. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The media is not sentient and its decisions are not logical. Religion’s media persecution complex 2013-04-23T22:01:00Z He puts the sentient simians on horseback and lends them the hand gestures and pidgin English of Native Americans from myriad horse operas. Richard Brody: Summer Movies 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Grimace himself has been described as the "embodiment" of a milkshake, while other speculate that he's actually just a sentient taste bud. It's the great shake-down: A look inside TikTok's ongoing Grimace Shake and "Barbie" shake trends 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z So there's nothing quite like a sentient, sane human being, whose seen this all before, saying "you're doing fine" to put your mind at rest. In praise of my childminder 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z And because it’s a prototype, pretty much everyone in PlanIT Valley will work for the companies that helped build it, making the sentient city a sentient workplace. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z He is one of a group of siblings known as The Endless, immortals that have existed since the first sentient lifeforms emerged from the void. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z A show for men, women and any sentient robots passing through, “Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future” at Ars Nova is a little musical with big, sad, beautiful ideas. Review: ‘Rags Parkland’ Plays the Interplanetary Homesick Blues 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Man builds a sentient computer: it's friendly and here to serve. Meet Watson, the computer set to beat Jeopardy's champions 2011-02-06T00:05:33Z You are sentient bread — a loaf, a slice, a baguette, a bagel. 10 chill and affordable video games to play that aren't "Animal Crossing" 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The trio would beam down to the planet’s surface along with the Expendable Crewmember – who would promptly get killed off by a space monster/mysterious sentient cloud/primitive hostiles. He’s in every action movie — but not for long: Meet the Expendable Asian Crewmember 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z And how far this cool $19 billion will go is anybody’s guess — it’s impossible to predict whether today’s sentient cities will be responsive to tomorrow’s unforeseen urban problems. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z The image endures down through the ages as a catechism of what it means to be human, a sentient and mistake-making creature adrift in the chaos. Kanye West’s post-Taylor Swift fallout: How he returned from spiritual exile with his masterpiece 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z When Jarvis Cocker recently materialized after an eight-year truancy to announce that he’d be singing his upcoming album from the perspective of a sentient piano, you could almost hear the sad trombone. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z “Above all,” he added, “I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” Review: Oliver Sacks Looks at His Life in ‘On the Move’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “On the 7th year, it became sentient. On the eighth year it took a selfie,” one joked of the product. Women celebrates 7-year-old cottage cheese she's kept in office fridge throughout job 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Yes, it’s good that the zoo finally realized the folly of keeping large, sentient mammals in captivity in a northerly climate. Zoo to elephant activists: You wanted them moved, right? 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z There didn’t used to be, back when she presented herself as a sentient, 24-7 artwork, singing about fame as if it were the most priceless metaphysical currency our civilization will ever know. Perspective | Hollywood brightened Lady Gaga’s star. Las Vegas will protect her from oblivion. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Already we were moving down tunnels lined with pictures of buildings that looked sentient, like a dead rabbit, or an explosion of spikes. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z It’s what makes you a thinking, sentient being rather than an unfeeling mechanism. Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The film’s villain is a sentient and rogue AI known as “the Entity” that sinks a submarine and kills its crew in the movie’s opening minutes. Biden wants to move fast on AI safeguards and will sign an executive order to address his concerns 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Hostile animatronics are on the loose in the surprisingly gory kids flick “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” about a sinister pizza joint whose anthropomorphic mascots become sentient after hours. Review: In 'Five Nights at Freddy's,' a moldering pizza parlor hides after-dark secrets 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The time has come for all industries to recognize animals as sentient beings worthy of respect and protection. Opinion: The circus is back without some of its best-known acts. And that's a good thing 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z The movie paints a future in which robots are sentient, emotional and even spiritual beings who’ve been integrated into human society as co-workers, assistants, civil servants and romantic partners. An AI nukes Hollywood in 'The Creator.' The movie's director has thoughts about that 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Even if McConnell is put on pause for 30 minutes a day, he's far better than some younger, marginally sentient members of his party. Is Joe Biden in big trouble? It looks that way — and he's got nobody else to blame 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z And yet, like a sentient moth flying knowingly into the flame, McCarthy is forging ahead anyway. Even Lauren Boebert knows a phony Biden impeachment will backfire — why the GOP will do it anyway 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The extent to which these theories are ultimately empirically verified or falsified for brain-based sentience therefore has important consequences for the looming question of our age: Can machines be sentient? What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z An engineer who worked on it became convinced that it was sentient. Google's search for an AI future as it turns 25 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z I mean, what’s weirder: that someone spends their whole day talking to what might be a sentient AI or talking to a cat, which people do right now? An AI nukes Hollywood in 'The Creator.' The movie's director has thoughts about that 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z I have no doubt that the day will come when certain sentient creatures will be given agency for the purpose of protecting them from greedy and cruel human behavior. The tortured life and death of Tokitae | Bob Kustra 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z This brings up the question of whether we human beings are in fact a sentient species. Donald Trump has gone off the deep end for real: He's a danger to humanity 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z They will become indispensable to us, perhaps more so than truly sentient organisms, even though they feel as much as a digital TV or toaster—nothing. What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z But that changed in July when a diving robot overturned volcanic bedrock pockmarked with hydrothermal vents and revealed an explosion of animal life — including an abundance of tubeworms, bizarre creatures that resemble sentient spaghetti. Under a Hellish Ocean Habitat, Bizarre Animals Are Lurking 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z And just like her sentient severed hand companion and host of macabre hobbies, Wednesday Addams also comes with a musical signature: four rising harpsichord notes and two finger snaps. When Tim Burton needs a composer, Danny Elfman snaps up the gig 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The Oscar nominated “La La Land” and “Half Nelson” star brings his so-called “Ken-rgy” to “I’m Just Ken” — however insecure the sentient plaything might feel about being friend-zoned by the iconic Barbie. Ryan Gosling's 'I'm Just Ken' from the 'Barbie' movie is here to take over your summer 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Although the idea of sentient, technological reptiles immediately reminds us of Star Trek’s Gorns or Doctor Who’s Silurians, there has actually been a scientific debate about this possibility for more than four decades. How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Campaigns to exterminate intelligent, sentient beings are not just unworkable but ethically misguided, Linklater adds. New Zealand seeks to exterminate predators to save native birds 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z I would have thought that no sentient being on the planet would have the nerve to compare what Donald Trump is accused of with the charges against Hunter Biden. Will the GOP stop hunting the Biden family now? 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z But these suggestive hints of negative and positive mind states still fell short of what was needed to demonstrate that insects are sentient. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z So too, assuming he's still sentient, can Vladimir Putin. Seduced by war yet again: Why Washington is underwriting violence in Ukraine 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Surely it is possible for a living entity to be immortal, sentient, distinct from its environment, metabolizing and even moving around without necessarily having to reproduce. Readers Respond to the February 2023 Issue 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z “Parrots live a long time. They are sentient creatures. They’re highly intelligent, very social, and these guys deserve a chance,” he said. Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z I would have thought that no sentient being on the planet would have the nerve to compare what Donald Trump is accused of with the charges against Hunter Biden. Will the GOP stop hunting the Biden family now? 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z But nature cannot afford to generate beings that just pretend to be sentient. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Yes, we all know he probably meant to say "curb" spending, but McCarthy — bless his heart! — has never been accused of being overly sentient. Wicked game: Kevin McCarthy's debt-ceiling "crisis" is political theater at its worst 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z The animals become “sentient commodities,” temporarily pets or friends but nevertheless destined for sale and slaughter. Cedar the Goat’s Story Revealed Our Beliefs about Pets and Livestock 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Last year, Google fired a researcher who claimed that a similar A.I. system was sentient, a step beyond what Microsoft has claimed. Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Last year, a Google engineer was fired after claiming an AI system was sentient. AI creators must study consciousness, experts warn 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z If at least some insects are sentient and can feel pain, as appears to be the case, what are the implications of that revelation? Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z A seemingly sentient bitcoin that codes itself in the style of Japanese haikus? Cryptoverse: Investors pick their AI race horses 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z And last summer, the company fired a researcher on its Responsible AI team who had become convinced that one language model, LaMDA, was sentient. Analysis | Google’s AI dilemma: Move fast or ‘Don’t be evil’? 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z A sentient system would not just be intelligent. Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z To quote Optimus Prime: “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.” Perspective | More than meets the eye: Georgetown vs. giant Transformers statues 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z The insight that many conventional livestock animals are probably sentient hasn't stopped humans from killing them. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Still, it was prescient about the possibility of sentient computers taking matters into their own metaphorical hands if they perceived that humans were straying from a programmed mission. Ready or not - and we are not - here comes AI | Horsey cartoon 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z One U.S. computer scientist, Stephen Thaler of Missouri, has maintained that his AI programs are sentient and should be legally recognized as the creators of artwork and inventions that they generated. Humans vs. machines: the fight to copyright AI art 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Last year, one of your engineers came forward to say that he believed LaMDA, this precursor to Bard, was sentient. Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z I then asked the chatbots to summarize a meeting to handle a fictional public relations crisis in which users of my A.I. start-up’s technology believed that the bot had become sentient. How ChatGPT and Bard Performed as My Executive Assistants 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z But to the extent that the affected creatures are probably sentient, we have a moral obligation to minimize their suffering—whether in research labs, on feed-and-food farms, or in agricultural settings. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z In her dissent, Sotomayor said lethal drugs can mask intense pain by paralyzing inmates while they are still sentient. Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Sotomayor agreed in her dissent that lethal drugs can mask intense pain by paralyzing inmates while they are still sentient. Why are firing squads for U.S. executions being debated? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Google has tested its AI on employees for years — which one engineer at the time, Blake Lemoine, claimed had become sentient — but has erred on the side of caution with the public. Google’s catch-up game on AI continues with Bard launch 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z It did, however, attract a lot of attention when one of the engineers who worked on it claimed its answers were so compelling that he believed it was sentient. Bard: Google's rival to ChatGPT launches for over-18s 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z In other words, it now looks like at least some species of insects—and maybe all of them—are sentient. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Our own tech might do us in in the form of sentient artificial intelligence that decides to snuff out its creators, as some AI critics have suggested. Will Humans Ever Go Extinct? 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Why we continue to tolerate killing sentient beings for fashion is beyond me. About your coverage of the Oscars ... 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z It really didn't feel sentient to me, it was like, "Oh this is really just a natural language processing program. It has a lot of limitations." ChatGPT isn’t sentient. Could we build a chatbot that is? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z “My biggest fear is that people are just flushing them down the toilet, and they are sentient beings.” How a Bronx Beautician Became New York’s On-Call Fish Rescuer 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The question of whether insects are sentient remained academic. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z And the more humanlike these bots become, the better they are at fooling people into thinking there is a sentient agent behind the computer screen. What the New GPT-4 AI Can Do 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Digital technologies are not autonomous actors free from human influence and they are certainly not sentient. Who's afraid of ChatGPT?: In the real world, teachers have little to fear 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Yeah, you raise a really interesting question: do we even want to build AI systems that are sentient? ChatGPT isn’t sentient. Could we build a chatbot that is? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The novel’s characters include a flying moose named Whistle, a sentient passenger train and an alternative human subspecies that’s built a secret city underneath a volcano. How sci-fi writer Annalee Newitz turned to real-life scientists to build a (better) future 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Maybe it should be, or the AI knows better and perhaps we are going to lose all sentient sense of sensibility anyway. A Documentary: By ChatGPT 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z For years, smart people have said we should move cautiously before we begin designing computers and robots that are virtually sentient and vastly more capable than any single human brain. AI cut loose — what could go wrong? 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The reporting also suffers from a disaster movie-like understanding of AI, where the programs become sentient and overtake humanity and free will. Who's afraid of ChatGPT?: In the real world, teachers have little to fear 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The idea that AI is sentient is bonkers, and that we are buying into that idea speaks to humanity’s boundless creativity. Commentary: Bing and other AI programs are meant to behave like humans. Why we're shocked when they do 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Another took issue with people who say the chatbot can't be sentient: "The very concept of questioning a narrative seems to be completely lost on a lot of people." AI companionship, toxic masculinity and the case of Bing's "sentient" chatbot 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Thus, these all-too-clever subterfuges are terribly insulting to sentient adults and belie a serious lack of character and sincerity. Opinion | The GOP has a favorite ‘implausible deniabilty’ answer 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z It has aggressively confessed its love, scolded users for being “disrespectful and annoying,” and declared that it may be sentient. Microsoft Considers More Limits for Its New A.I. Chatbot 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Since then, people have noticed that some of what the Bing chatbot generates is inaccurate, misleading and downright weird, prompting fears that it has become sentient, or aware of the world around it. Why Chatbots Sometimes Act Weird and Spout Nonsense 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z In the light of day, I know that Sydney is not sentient, and that my chat with Bing was the product of earthly, computational forces — not ethereal alien ones. Help, Bing Won’t Stop Declaring Its Love for Me 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z But, as Edwards noted, many others "feel that Bing is suffering at the hands of cruel torture, or that it must be sentient." AI companionship, toxic masculinity and the case of Bing's "sentient" chatbot 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Are we sentient enough to recognize one if we see it? Adults in the playroom: Biden and Romney try to rescue order from chaos — but is that enough? 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Ask it “What did Blake Lemoine say about AI?” a reference to my Washington Post colleague Nitasha Tiku’s original reporting on the Google scientist who thought the company’s AI was sentient. Review | Trying Microsoft’s new AI chatbot search engine, some answers are uh-oh 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The AI generated text with such skill that a company engineer last year called it sentient, a claim the technology giant and scientists widely dismissed. Explainer: Bard vs ChatGPT: What do we know about Google's AI chatbot? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Bard is built on Google's existing large language model Lamda, which one engineer described as being so human-like in its responses that he believed it was sentient. Google launches ChatGPT rival called Bard 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The chatbot fantasy is about squaring that circle, convincing themselves they can have the companionship only sentient creatures can provide, but without having to worry about the emotional and physical needs that actual women have. AI companionship, toxic masculinity and the case of Bing's "sentient" chatbot 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Powering Bard is LaMDA, Google's AI that can generate prose so human-like that a company engineer last year called it sentient, a claim the technology giant and scientists widely dismissed. Google opens Bard chatbot to test users, plans more AI for search 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Google's is called Lamda, and was so convincing that Blake Lemoine, one of the engineers who worked on it, was convinced it was sentient. ChatGPT firm trials $20 monthly subscription fee 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z She added: "Imagine a live sentient being ripped apart by dogs." New Scottish fox hunting bill to pass 20 years after ban 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z They’ll get 60 bucks—compensation he feels is well worth the risk of their skin potentially peeling off, death due to an artificial intelligence guide becoming sentient, or worse. From Halo to The Simpsons, would fictional mad scientists pass ethical review? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z When some people talk to these bots, they even describe them as sentient or conscious, believing that machines have somehow developed an awareness of the world around them. The Chatbots Can’t Outsmart You. Yet. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Or are they simply passing by, like sentient ships in the night? Snarl, You’re on Candid Camera 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The project spilled into the public consciousness early last summer when another Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, told The Washington Post that LaMDA was sentient. A.I. Is Becoming More Conversant. But Will It Get More Honest? 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Yet the novel smartly argues that people—particularly when the term expands to include sentient forms far beyond humans—might just be a planet’s best resource. If Future Humans Terraformed a New Earth, Could They Get It Right? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Make an all-powerful, sentient one your unofficial mascot and you might find yourself in the College Football Playoff championship game — or at least that’s the case for the Texas Christian Horned Frogs. All glory for TCU's playoff run goes to the Hypnotoad 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z As a carnivore myself, I am fully aware that, sometime in the future, people will wake up to the horrible cruelty of raising sentient animals for food. Opinion | We should learn from the past, not destroy it 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Like every sentient creature, I am a marvel of fantastically intricate engineering. Can Quantum Mechanics Quell the Holiday Blues? 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z This year, language models proved they can write humanlike text, with one AI chatbot generating such impressive responses that it convinced an engineer it was sentient. Editors' Picks: Our Favorite Opinions of 2022 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Newitz’s plot skips across generations of people who come after Destry—an appealingly diverse cast of rangers, scientists, engineers and an utterly endearing autonomous collective of sentient flying trains. If Future Humans Terraformed a New Earth, Could They Get It Right? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Called LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, Google’s chat bot received enormous attention in the summer when a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed it was sentient. A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In a world fast filling with sentient droids, robots like Gita — designed to work with a human, not replace one — represent a small but growing slice of the market. This robot is on a mission to eliminate short car trips 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Similarly powerful technology that Google built and is narrowly testing with users led one of its engineers this year to say the software was sentient. Exclusive: ChatGPT owner OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue by 2024 -sources 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “So there is definitely a need for this and it elevates their legal status to better reflect how we see animals, that they are sentient beings.” D.C. animal welfare bill would consider pets’ well-being in divorces 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z This spring, a Google engineer claimed it was sentient. The New Chat Bots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them? 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Orcas have unique cultural, social and physical characteristics and, like humans, they are sentient beings, have individual personality traits and display affection, grief and playfulness, scientists have determined. Port Townsend recognizes rights of endangered southern resident orcas 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Now sentient, WALL•E spends his days compacting garbage into blocks, constructing junk buildings, hanging out with a cockroach named Hal and watching “Hello Dolly!” Blu-ray and 4K UHD gift ideas for movie fans 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z “Fish are living, sentient beings. They have a complex range of behaviors and personalities,” said Paul Rustchynsky, the game’s director. Hook, line and sinker: How fishing minigames became a video game mainstay 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z I liken it to how some people claim to see ghosts and are, in other ways, more sentient of the paranormal. There were no Jedi, and other reasons 'Andor' was great 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Farm Sanctuary, which was founded in 1986, has always held that farm animals are sentient beings, even referring to its feathered and four-legged residents as “people.” Why Did the Chicken Cross the Barn? To Sign Up for the Scientific Study. 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Animal play is one piece of the puzzle when determining whether a group of animals is sentient—whether its members have inner feelings and experiences. Ball-Rolling Bumble Bees Just Wanna Have Fun 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Google has launched a UK version of an app that lets users interact with the artificial-intelligence system one of its engineers has claimed is sentient. Google offers glimpse of ultra-realistic chat tech 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Other experts describe the work as ''exciting'' but say calling the brain cells sentient is going too far. Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z I look at my dogs, and they're clearly conscious and sentient, but I am not sure that they have a conception like we do, that they existed yesterday and they're going to exist tomorrow. The brain is actually a fiction writer: How our minds create a sense of self from fragments 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z “If you don’t take your characters’ bodies into account,” she writes, “your work is in danger of being populated by sentient, anguished helium balloons.” ‘The Hero of This Book’: Elizabeth McCracken’s witty fiction-memoir mashup 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Scientists consider mammals, birds, and increasingly cephalopods and fish to be sentient beings. Ball-Rolling Bumble Bees Just Wanna Have Fun 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z A transnational tech corporation brings marine biologist Ha Nguyen to a research team led by a sentient android whose existence is outlawed in most of the world. 10 noteworthy books for October 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Dr Kagan's description of his system sentient, however, differs from many dictionary definitions, which state it means having the capacity to have feelings and sensations. Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z "Most people would dismiss the very possibility that plants are sentient at the outset, negating the need for an ethical standpoint, and arguing that it would lead to absurd implications," Calvo pointed out. Why some scientists believe plants may have consciousness 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z More circumspect as a government official, she now says the dirty fuel is bitter medicine that her country is forced to take this winter, echoing the sentient of the country’s Green party. Ukraine war thrusts German climate action into spotlight 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Regardless of the play’s function, such studies can help researchers determine if a species is sentient, says Heather Browning, an animal welfare expert and philosopher at the University of Southampton in England. Ball-Rolling Bumble Bees Just Wanna Have Fun 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z By default, though, some apps make your posts visible to every sentient being and bot on the internet. Read this before you post your location on social media 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “Whether one wants to realize it or not,” she replied, “a fish is a sentient being.” Column: The seizure of thousands of mistreated beagles sparks unsettling questions about animal research 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z "Rats are intelligent, sentient animals. They are capable of complex feelings and emotions, they feel remorse," said Parsons, a behavioral scientist who specializes in academic research relating to rat pheromones. That Instagram-famous street rat is probably a loser in the rat world 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Google made news recently for a different type of firing — letting go of an engineer, Blake Lemoine, in July after he claimed the company’s A.I. was sentient and leaked corporate documents. Google Employee Who Played Key Role in Protest of Contract With Israel Quits 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Then there’s Google’s LaMDA, an A.I. model that made headlines a couple of months ago when Blake Lemoine, a senior Google engineer, was fired after claiming that it had become sentient. We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z All of these terms have very different connotations—even destructive ones—as historically applied to Indigenous peoples or, for that matter, as applied to all the other sentient beings that live on Earth. Cultural Bias Distorts the Search for Alien Life 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z I look forward to the day we stop using sentient beings in laboratory experiments. Column: The seizure of thousands of mistreated beagles sparks unsettling questions about animal research 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Current artificial intelligence technology is not actually sentient, and can’t create robots who can emote, converse or jam on lead vocals like a human. Your Tuesday Briefing: China’s New Military Drills Near Taiwan 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Some people in the AI space tend to think about this technology in the grandest possible terms; they compare it to gods, to sentient life. "An engine for the imagination": an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z They’ll tell you that A.I. is still nowhere close to becoming sentient, or replacing humans in a wide variety of jobs. We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Even now some people don’t consider nonhuman animals to be sentient, let alone possessing any real intelligence. Cultural Bias Distorts the Search for Alien Life 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Opinion: We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Big Tech builds AI with bad data. So scientists sought better data. 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z If the study holds up, he says, “the world contains far more sentient beings than we ever realized.” Bees may feel pain 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z “We found Blake’s claims that LaMDA is sentient to be wholly unfounded and worked to clarify that with him for many months.” Google Fires Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Conscious 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Last month, Blake Lemoine went public with his theory that Google's language technology is sentient and should therefore have its "wants" respected. Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z We found Blake’s claims that LaMDA is sentient to be wholly unfounded and worked to clarify that with him for many months. The engineer who claimed a Google AI is sentient has been fired 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z This type of AI has made rapid progress in recent years, even convincing a Google engineer that the company’s chatbot generator, LaMDA, was sentient. Big Tech builds AI with bad data. So scientists sought better data. 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Spotting a sign that encourages him to take his top off, he responds: "Please do not objectify me, Latitude. I am not a piece of meat, I am a sentient human being." Latitude Festival: Lewis Capaldi says he's "too lazy" for new album 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel. As AI language skills grow, so do scientists’ concerns 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z This led Mr Lemoine to believe that behind its impressive verbal skills might also lie a sentient mind. Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps most striking are the exchanges related to the themes of existence and death, a dialogue so deep and articulate that it prompted Lemoine to question whether LaMDA could actually be sentient. Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z "Replika is not a sentient being or therapy professional," the FAQs page says. It's alive! How belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Still, as easy as it seems to knock down the claim of LaMDA as sentient, unsettling observations keep popping up. AI and the ghost in the machine: Losing human jobs is the least of our worries 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Even when he was a baby himself, just a tiny scrap of sentient fluff, Wasabi seemed destined for great things. Retired at 4, Wasabi still carries himself like a champion 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Later in the show, the topic shifts to Google’s LaMDA model that was accused of being sentient by a Google engineer. Vergecast: Dish’s 5G network, Apple’s Major League Soccer deal, and Google’s AI debate 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z These led him to ask if the software program is sentient. Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z But when it proves sentient, friendly and willing to learn, Brian names the robot Charles and begins to relish his new role as combination pal, caretaker and worried father figure. Review: A bit of whimsy is not enough to bring robot-buddy picture 'Brian and Charles' to life 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z The question of if, or when, human-made systems could become sentient has fascinated researchers and the general public for years. Opinion | If Google’s AI is truly alive — now what? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z "And I'm not sure that it is meaningful to ever say that a chatbot is sentient. After all, you can turn it off and on again, it is not a living thing." How human-like are the most sophisticated chatbots? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The crew pushes back on the idea of a chatbot being sentient and discusses the way people humanize these models. Vergecast: Dish’s 5G network, Apple’s Major League Soccer deal, and Google’s AI debate 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z One alternative, Scilingo suggests, might be to measure the “effects” a machine can induce on humans—that is, “how sentient that AI can be perceived to be by human beings.” Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z This nifty creation was very obviously not sentient, but it didn’t need to be convincing for kids to talk to it anyway — even though their real-life classmates were also a click away. Opinion | Is AI sentient? Wrong question. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “Strong stewardship is very much needed, a philosophy that recognizes and treats all nonhuman life forms as sentient beings.” Biologists try to save ancient fish as Colorado River fades 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Chatbots have hit the headlines over the past few days after a Google engineer claimed that the firm's most advanced system has developed human-like feelings, or become sentient. How human-like are the most sophisticated chatbots? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z In short, Google says there is so much data, AI doesn’t need to be sentient to feel real. The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z In the conversation, Mr Lemoine, who works in Google's Responsible AI division, asks, "I'm generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you're sentient. Is that true?" Google engineer says Lamda AI system may have its own feelings 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Of course we don’t think the animation is sentient, but we still identify with the distinctly human curiosity from his metal frame. Opinion | Is AI sentient? Wrong question. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Blake Lemoine made headlines after being suspended from Google, following his claims that an artificial intelligence bot had become sentient. 5 things Google’s AI bot wrote that convinced engineer it was sentient 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z “Some in the broader A.I. community are considering the long-term possibility of sentient or general A.I., but it doesn’t make sense to do so by anthropomorphizing today’s conversational models, which are not sentient.” Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Before he was cut off from access to his Google account Monday, Lemoine sent a message to a 200-person Google mailing list on machine learning with the subject “LaMDA is sentient.” The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Whether computers can be sentient has been a subject of debate among philosophers, psychologists and computer scientists for decades. Google engineer says Lamda AI system may have its own feelings 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z To their credit, the networks decided to treat Americans as sentient grown-ups. Perspective | The Jan. 6 hearing was horrifying. It also gave me hope. 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist. Star Wars stands with Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Moses Ingram amid racist fan backlash 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z “There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist,” the account added. Moses Ingram, 'Star Wars' stand up to racist backlash over 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' casting 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z "It made me wonder if we can justify the industrial slaughter of sentient beings," says the 50-year-old looking back on the event in 2017. The meat and dairy farmers who are going vegan 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Prof Erik Brynjolfsson, of Stanford University, tweeted that to claim systems like Lamda were sentient "is the modern equivalent of the dog who heard a voice from a gramophone and thought his master was inside". Google engineer says Lamda AI system may have its own feelings 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Near the end, in an alternative universe, we see the mother and daughter as two sentient rocks telepathically speaking to one another. Perspective | ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a deeply Asian American film 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z As Jackson explains, “It’s amazing the simple things you can do to make a machine look sentient.” A visit to the human factory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s important to stress that this is not a question about the software’s becoming self-aware or sentient. A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In a previous draft, the name even had a back story in an even sillier universe populated by sentient spaghetti. 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' explained: Hot dog hands, empathy challenges and meaning in the absurd 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z She hopes her work will encourage humans to see fish as sentient creatures like us that deserve to be treated with more respect. Fish can learn basic arithmetic 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Or maybe he played Trump for a fool when he was in office, as any sentient being could see? Trump admits he was wrong about Putin — but just can't quit him 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Proponents of hunting may try to defend the practice on various grounds, but contorting language to pretend that a sentient being is the same as a carrot cannot be one of them. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Confusing use of the word ‘propaganda’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z L.L.M.s are not conscious — there’s no internal ‘‘theater of the mind’’ where the software experiences thinking in the way sentient organisms like humans do. A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Last year, researchers at the London School of Economics concluded from a review of 300 scientific studies that octopus were sentient beings capable of experiencing distress and happiness, and that high-welfare farming would be impossible. World's first octopus farm stirs ethical debate 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Lacking a sentient AI like Cortana to help me make these decisions, I guessed. Master Chief’s chili recipe needs a day one patch 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Shankar's case has also opened up larger questions on whether it's okay to keep a sentient creature like the elephant in captivity. Shankar the elephant: Plea to send lonely African animal home from India 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z “He always believed mindfulness was a spiritual thing. For him, mindfulness was all about connecting to oneself and all sentient beings of the world, and the moral dimension of becoming aware of that interbeing.” 'A cloud never dies:' A California monastery mourns mindfulness advocate Thich Nhat Hanh 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z To that end, she was sent to find sentient beings on other planets to ask them their meaning of life. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is an emotional culmination of a decade-long journey 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Her 4-year-old tuxedo cat, Max, otherwise known as the “sentient soccer ball,” jumped up on the box. They bought a blender. Three weeks later, their cats continue to hold it hostage. 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Given the existential questioning that has always been at the core of “The Matrix,” the Hollywood machine becoming sentient might seem like a bold next step. Five questions to help you figure out if you'll love 'The Matrix Resurrections' 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z They argue such intelligent "sentient" creatures - considered able to feel pain and emotions - should never be commercially reared for food. The world’s first octopus farm - should it go ahead? 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z "This poison will inflict pain and suffering on a great many sentient animals," she said. California to drop 3,000 pounds of mouse poison onto coastal islands to save rare seabirds 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z “This poison will inflict pain and suffering on a great many sentient animals,” she said. California commission OKs poisoning plan for wildlife refuge 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z We may be sentient beings, but we are no geniuses when it comes to politics. America, the ungovernable? 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Although reported as a meteor strike, the explosion was caused by a human encounter with Adam, the first of the powerful, sentient creatures known as Angels to appear on Earth. The 75 best TV shows on Netflix right now, according to our experts 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Octopuses - and other invertebrate cephalopods - are considered as sentient beings, but EU law covering farm animal welfare is only applied to vertebrates - creatures that have backbones. The world’s first octopus farm - should it go ahead? 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Whether child or pet, people are meeting the same evolved need to care for, teach and love a sentient other. Dog and Cat ‘Moms’ and ‘Dads’ Really Are Parenting Their Pets 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The brief argued that companion animals are “sentient beings who are capable of forming strong two-way emotional bonds that a large majority of Americans describe as familial.” Kona and Mr. Bear: A tale of a nasty divorce and pet visitation rights in Washington state 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Spain’s Congress has taken steps to change the country’s civil code to stipulate that pets should be considered “sentient beings,” rather than property, but it hasn’t been approved yet. Couple in Spain granted joint custody of their pet dog, Panda, in rare ruling 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z For the uninitiated, pikmin are sentient plant creatures that work well in groups and have unique abilities depending on their color. Pikmin Bloom hands-on: a cute app that tries to make walking a little more magical 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Though mother and son drive the narrative, Ozeki’s stage overflows with a large cast of both characters and sentient objects. Review: Objects and ideas come to life in Ruth Ozeki's mad, floating literary world 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z They have no face, no speech, but they’re sentient and have six sides of malice. Fortnite season 8 is all about the cubes 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z These animals are sentient beings, she writes — selves. Reimagining humanity’s obligation to wild animals 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z No sentient person expects anything of the sort. Opinion | The Biden administration’s gaseous obfuscation on Afghanistan isn’t helping 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Although sponges are many remarkable things, sentient is not one of them, and that must surely be counted as a win here. One Head, 1,000 Rear Ends: The Tale of a Deeply Weird Worm 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z And “The Book,” the very one in the reader’s hands, is a sentient being who writes Benny’s story, which Benny grouchily corrects along the way. Review: Objects and ideas come to life in Ruth Ozeki's mad, floating literary world 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The cubes also appear to be sentient now, which is fun. Fortnite season 8 is all about the cubes 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z "The basket itself is not sentient, cannot suffer or feel pleasure, and is not alive," she writes. Reimagining humanity’s obligation to wild animals 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Many organizations won’t even go that far; to maintain the illusion that their mascots move sentiently among us, the person on the payroll is sometimes known as the mascot’s “best friend.” The Mascot Whisperer 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z It's possible that sentient robots won't need to devise ingenious stratagems for taking over the world. Artificial intelligence wants you (and your job) 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z “If trees were sentient in the sense that we could communicate with them, I don’t think trees would mind being utilized,” Franklin says. The benefits — to us, and to nature — of forging a friendship with our forests 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z One of these is Cone, a surreal platform-puzzle game that puts you in the role of a sentient traffic cone who embarks on a journey across a series of beautifully rendered spaces. The game makers and artists pushing Roblox to its limits 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z A more helpful and realistic set of considerations, she writes, would include the flourishing of sentient creatures, human compassion, and humility, the flow of matter and energy between living things, and biological diversity. Reimagining humanity’s obligation to wild animals 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z "A dog is a sentient being and therefore has greater value than just an object, and it is time we brought the law up to speed," he added. Protests, pet thefts and sex crimes: MPs want changes to the policing bill 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Since they would be interested only in self-preservation and replication, not protecting humanity or following its orders, such sentient machines would clearly tear up Asimov's rulebook. Artificial intelligence wants you (and your job) 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z And why only a $22 million budget when looking for answers about sentient life visiting us from worlds far away? Opinion | I Created ‘The X-Files.’ Here’s Why I’m Skeptical of the New U.F.O. Report. 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Eons from now, he conjectures, our descendants may occupy other star systems and galaxies, perhaps after shedding their flesh-and-blood bodies and becoming clouds of sentient gas. Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z An ear / A brain / With sentient thought / That knows exactly / What you bought / Amazon Alexa. Perspective | On the road: Pondering America on a post-pandemic trip down I-95 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Most sentient beings on the planet breathed a huge sigh of relief last November when Joe Biden won the presidential election. How to lose America: The death of democracy looks nearer than ever 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z The array of initiatives also includes banning the import of hunting trophies from endangered species, and formally recognising animals as sentient beings. Animal welfare plan unveiled by government 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Even Santorum's CNN colleague, "United Shades of America" host W. Kamau Bell, publicly called out the former senator as a "white supremacist, white nationalist, racist, xenophobic sentient wet bag of garbage." Rick Santorum bizarrely claims there was “nothing” in America until white Christians arrived 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z He called the GOP "racist" and "neo-fascist" and, hilariously, compared the Republican congressional caucus specifically to a "sentient YouTube comment section." The Charlottesville model: Trump's "fine people" praise of white nationalists is now GOP mainstream 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z When philosophers refer to zombies, they mean not the clumsy, grunting cannibals of The Walking Dead but creatures that walk and talk like sentient humans but lack inner awareness. Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Yet no sentient human being should be able to forget watching the agonizing video of Floyd’s death, nine excruciating minutes with the White police officer’s knee pressing on the Black man’s neck. Opinion | Why Derek Chauvin’s jury must have Black members 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z This view was later dismissed by the eminent biologist EO Wilson, who stated: “We are not as gods. We are neither intelligent or sentient enough to be much of anything.” 'It is the question of the century': will tech solve the climate crisis – or make it worse? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead, she walks in on Director Hayward and his S.W.O.R.D. team dismantling Vision’s body, after he’s declared the “most dangerous sentient weapon ever made.” As WandaVision nears its end, episode 8 looks through the past 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z "This sort of study is important because, as with any sentient beings, how we interact with pigs and what we do to them impacts and matters to them," lead author Dr Candace Croney said. Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z This seems to imply that Wanda is a sentient weapon in need of observation. What's going on in 'WandaVision'? These comic book storylines might explain 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z The issue of whether or not plants choose their actions and possess feelings or even consciousness is a thorny one for many botanists, with the more traditional-minded strongly disputing any notion of sentient vegetation. Food for thought? French bean plants show signs of intent, say scientists 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z You’re the captain of a sentient ship, guiding a crew through the cosmos while also booking gigs for your intergalactic rock band. 8 great Apple Arcade games for your new 2020 iPhone or iPad 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Any sentient coach would sense the undercurrents in play here. Perspective | Don’t make what’s interesting important, Ron Rivera says. Easier said than done for Washington. 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z She had a close personal relationship with her computer, perhaps the closest she could boast of any sentient being in Seattle. Seeing 2020: A vision of Seattle’s future from 1984 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z The famed benchmark isn’t a sentient being; it reflects the headlines and underlying economic and financial conditions, but doesn’t respond to them. Why Dow 30,000 is no reason to celebrate 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z He believes claims about sentient plants are misleading, and risk misdirecting scientific funding and government policy decisions. Food for thought? French bean plants show signs of intent, say scientists 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Wildlife experts say elephants are cognitively sophisticated and sentient, almost like humans. Kaavan, the world's loneliest elephant, is finally going free 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Then again, if Toad is a sentient fungus, it adds a dark aspect to Mario’s penchant for eating mushrooms. Fun guy: is that Toad from Mario’s head or is he wearing a hat? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The outlet, the email claimed, was “having a profound impact on saving sentient beings in that country.” How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z But it's practical use for removing a president who is sentient and does not wish to be removed is remote. The high price of primary politics 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The cosmos sprang into existence when you became sentient, and it will vanish when you die. How Do I Know I'm Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe? 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z As many Bhutanese people do every day, she was praying for peace for all the world’s sentient beings. Virtual travel offers tourists a chance to see the world 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z And dramatically speaking, all robots and artificial life forms are sentient, whether they look like a little trash can or a movie star. Ridley Scott keeps predicting the end of the world. This time, it hits different 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z It could also introduce millions of people to the teachings of Falun Gong, fulfilling the group’s mission of “saving sentient beings.” How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z There’s setting the bar low, and then there’s alleging your opponent isn’t sentient. No buyer’s remorse for Democrats 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The music video, which Timothy created with the artist Max Valizadeh, takes that idea a step further - depicting an audio file that becomes sentient, before managers and labels capture and multiply it. 11 of the best music videos from lockdown 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Antinatalists argue that bringing sentient life into the world is inherently cruel, as it is doomed to suffer; some make headlines for suing their parents over their own existence. Why a generation is choosing to be child-free 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Everything is goofy: the most difficult bosses are sentient office supplies, and there are multiple surprise musical numbers and performances, including a multipart stage play that ends in a Shy Guy ballet. Paper Mario: The Origami King is a laugh-out-loud funny RPG on the Switch 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Three eyes — of a baby squid, a human and a hurricane — indicate sentient life. Collage of Nature covers — a geoscientist’s take 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z It is not a sentient being with a soul, emotions and aspirations. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Artistry — and protest — in motion 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Last seen narrating the series finale from a time far in the future of the already far-future time in which the show was set, he is the right little sentient robot for the job. 'Adventure Time: Distant Lands' keeps the beloved cartoon's magic intact 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Here, the meta-reference is to a “choose your journey” paperback novel, “The Mystery of the Mysterious Spy,” that Kimmy discovers in a pocket of Jan, her sentient talking backpack. The best way through Netflix's interactive 'Kimmy Schmidt' special? Sympathy 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The forest is a sentient being with whom they maintain social relationships of mutual care and support through taboo, ritual, song and dance. How Sustainable Development Ravaged the Congo Basin 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z And replacing sentient animals with robots can reduce the need for animal research. Winged “PigeonBot” Flies with Real Feathers 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z But in the end, she is just like us — another sentient being, small in the face of all that is unknowable. Perspective | This 18th-century painting by Chardin of a teacher and her student is especially poignant now 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But there’s also a shifting consciousness that these are sentient beings, so I think it is a world that is coming to an end, in many ways. Imprisoned 'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic is 'over the moon' to be famous, directors say 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z If there were ever sentient beings in the Ophiuchus cluster, a faraway conglomeration of galaxies in the southern sky, they are long gone. This Black Hole Blew a Hole in the Cosmos 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Then, like magic, I heard from a real, sentient human. Opinion | What happens when Google loses your address? You cease to exist. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “Loss is a phenomenon common to sentient animals, including humans.” An elephant’s story does not end when it dies 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Violence seeps into the everyday as secrets and lies amass, and by the end of the play, every sentient being on Earth is engaged in conflict. Jessica Hynes: 'Love isn't wishy washy – it's strength and power' 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The lowest sentient creature in the Super Bowl caste system. A power ranking of the 10 biggest jackasses at your Super Bowl party - Golf Digest 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Splatoon is a particularly good fit for this kind of performance given how its world, despite being about sentient squids battling with ink, was heavily influenced by hip-hop and skateboard culture. This hour-long Splatoon concert features holographic squid kids 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z This was where members and officers of the House and Senate metamorphosed the words of the Constitution into a sentient tableau. Trade deals, Trump impeachment trial showcase 'Washington whiplash' at its finest 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z She declares herself an independent global citizen, and never bothers to ponder the question of whether she is sentient or not. Twisted timelines of a double dystopia 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z For instance, it may be that sending biology between the stars is next to impossible, but sending autonomous, self-replicating machines is a way for any sentient species to explore and expand their reach. Rise of the Machines 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The rights of men stem exclusively from the fact that they are sentient beings, capable of acquiring moral ideas and of reasoning upon them. Books for our time: seven classics that speak to us now 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “Donkeys have good reasoning skills. They are very observant and sentient animals, and they create very strong bonds with other donkeys.” Chinese trade in hides has led to global donkey massacre 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z That Raab, the flesh suit of a sentient virus with a forehead vein like a B&B kettle-cord, is somehow the moral heart of this enterprise tells you all you need to know. Frankie Boyle’s election countdown: 'You’ll be praying they prorogue the next parliament' 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z There were sentient plants whose digestive and respiratory systems were combined. The First Alien 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z To Benatar and his followers, the values of anti-natalism – that is, the imperative to avoid harm – apply not only to humans but to all sentient beings. I wish I'd never been born: the rise of the anti-natalists 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “I think it takes an incredible act of will to be sentient and be able to do that.” At 94, she was ready to die by fasting. Her daughter filmed it. 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z There may be one exception to the small animal rule: immobile bivalves – oysters and mussels – are probably not even as sentient as shrimp. A foie gras ban is long overdue – but what about other foods made from animal suffering? | Jacy Reese 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Jobs aren’t sentient, which means you can’t talk any sense into them, which means the only good way to solve problems is by talking some sense into yourself regardless of whose fault they are. Your Job Will Never Love You Back 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z According to HBO Max’s official synopsis, “BMO” will follow the titular sentient robot as he is called on to help with “a deadly space emergency in the farthest reaches of the galaxy.” HBO Max revives Cartoon Network's 'Adventure Time' with new specials 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z This brings us to perhaps the most unexpected aspect of anti-natalism: taken to its logical conclusion, it implies that not only humans but all sentient beings should be spared from life. I wish I'd never been born: the rise of the anti-natalists 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Neuroscientists may have crossed an “ethical rubicon” by growing potentially sentient human “mini-brains” in the lab to investigate schizophrenia, autism and other disorders, researchers have warned. US briefing: White House in crisis, Michael Bloomberg and opioid trial 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z One of the first things you do in Ring Fit Adventure is meet a sentient ring named… Ring. Ring Fit Adventure review: two weeks with Nintendo’s charming exercise RPG 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Certain papers who cheerily trashed Sterling for so long, for reasons they could never quite put their finger on – but he could – recently seem to have become dimly sentient about the existence of racism. So: Bulgaria bad, England good? Actually this is not as black and white as it seems | Marina Hyde 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The Giant Sequoias were not objects to be studied, but sentient beings recognized as venerable members of the Yosemite community. Yosemite's Sequoias have a vital message. Listen to them, urges Terry Tempest Williams 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The small community that continues to live there is made up of mutated humans and one sentient fungus scientist who have created fairly normal lives for themselves. Mutazione is a game about the importance of tending to gardens and people 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z |
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