Chimps are losing their culture by Michael Marshall in NewScientist 16 March 2019
Chimps are losing their cultural diversity due to too many humans. Researchers have shown a clear...
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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? Is artificial consciousness possible? It considers if robots could have emotions or even feelings. Could there be conscious AI or conscious robots? 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 features can be uploaded into AI and robots.
FEATURED POSTS
In our own image by George Zarkadakis 2015
A comprehensive and accessible run-through of all matters AI-related. The book covers a lot of...
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The festival of AI and emerging technology by CogX 10-12 June 2019
500 speakers over three days. CogX produces great daily newsflow on trends and events in AI. They...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
In our own image by George Zarkadakis 2015
A comprehensive and accessible run-through of all matters AI-related. The book covers a lot of...
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Chimps are losing their culture by Michael Marshall in NewScientist 16 March 2019
Chimps are losing their cultural diversity due to too many humans. Researchers have shown a clear...
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Angels and Demons by Richard Wrangham in NewScientist 16 February 2019
Language enabled early man to develop social tolerance. Wrangham has written a summary of the...
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Chimp signals a bit like human speech in NewScientist 23 February 2019
Maybe human language is not as distinctive as previously thought. Researchers have been looking at...
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Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness by B J Baars and N M Gage 2010
An immense and valuable introduction to neuroscience. At around 600 large pages with plenty of...
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The righteous mind by Jonathan Haidt 2012
Morally, we’re largely intuitive, with limited reasoning powers. The righteous mind is a difficult...
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