When 15-year-old Benjamin Qin Muji began writing his essay during the China trials for the International Philosophy Olympiad in Shanghai earlier this year, there was one question on his mind.
“Do machines have the ability to think and feel pain?” Benjamin posed to his readers, the judges of the competition for high school students.
Benjamin argued that artificial intelligence, with its remarkable ability to process multiple streams of information and synthesise new ideas, could indeed…
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