Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company’s artificial intelligence technology is not anywhere near being sentient and may never get there, even as he touted A.I. as central to the $1.4 ...

Prognosticators debate the ethics of sentient AI versus the potential risks of the computers taking over. My hypothesis: They already have. Most people just have not realized it yet.

Almost 60 years after a sentient computer refused to “open the pod bay doors” in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the idea of artificial intelligence, or AI, continues to stir unease, despite the ...