Blade Runner 2049 October 2017
The film asks all the right questions. For example, can you empathise with replicants as much you...
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THE SENTIENT ROBOT
This site is for everyone interested in two of today's big topics, consciousness and artificial intelligence. It explores whether consciousness can be instantiated in a robot or artificial intelligence entity: can artificial intelligence become self aware? It considers if robots could have emotions or even feelings. The site is a go-to, constantly updated repository of summaries and synopses of books, articles, papers, media and events that touch on the human properties of sentience and self awareness. The site explores whether such characteristics can be uploaded into machines.FEATURED POSTS
How our sleeping brain stores away memories by Jessica Hamzelou in NewScientist 7 October 2017
We can now watch the brain store long-term memories. A team at Stanford University has persuaded...
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Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark 2017
A plea to develop AI, but let’s keep it safe. Tegmark starts with a fable to do with an AI that...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Blade Runner 2049 October 2017
The film asks all the right questions. For example, can you empathise with replicants as much you...
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Imitation as behaviour parsing by RW Byrne in The Royal Society online 4 February 2017
Neural networks (biological ones) engage in learning too! Byrne proposes that imitation in great...
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Give evolution enough time in Johnson in The Economist 7 October 2017
Everett and Chomsky bracket the debate around the beginnings of language. On the face of it, the...
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Give evolution enough time in Johnson in The Economist 7 October 2017
Everett and Chomsky bracket the debate around the beginnings of language. On the face of it, the...
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How our sleeping brain stores away memories by Jessica Hamzelou in NewScientist 7 October 2017
We can now watch the brain store long-term memories. A team at Stanford University has persuaded...
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Philosophical conceptions of the self by Shaun Gallagher in Trends in Cognitive Sciences January 2000
Philosophy adds value to concepts of self for the world of neuroscience. Figuring out how to give...
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