The rapid rise of large language models has fuelled speculation about eventual artificial general intelligence. Winner of the Brain Essay Competition 2025, Alex Gwyn O’Hare considers whether it is technologically feasible for machines to achieve human-level intelligence, and philosophically plausible for them to possess consciousness.
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