Edinburgh Science Festival Event: Sentient Robots: Friends or Monsters
It is timely to ask whether the technical cleverness of robotic machines will enable them to become sentient
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A new book by Rupert Robson
THE SENTIENT ROBOT
The Last Two Hurdles in the Race to Build Artificial Superintelligence
Published October 2022
Available to order now
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.
NEWS FROM THE SENTIENT ROBOT
The Times: Letter to the Editor
Read Rupert Robson’s letter to The Editor in The Times
Read MoreRupert Robson Podcast with Minter Dial
Listen to Rupert discuss his new book The Sentient Robot with Minter Dial on The Minter Dialogue Podcast.
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FEATURED POSTS
Mother tongue by Andrea Valentino in New Scientist 26 November 2022
We will never know how and when language emerged but we are getting closer. You’ll have heard of...
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DeepMind AI topples experts at complex game Stratego by Anil Ananthaswamy in Nature 1 December 2022
Artificial superintelligence will help solve humankind’s intractable problems and it’s being built...
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AIs can outperform humans when instructed to think step by step by Chris Stokel-Walker in New Scientist 5 November 2022
Chain-of-thought prompting could represent a conceptual breakthrough in AI research. Researchers...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
DeepMind AI topples experts at complex game Stratego by Anil Ananthaswamy in Nature 1 December 2022
Artificial superintelligence will help solve humankind’s intractable problems and it’s being built...
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Bumblebees have a ball by Corryn Wetzel in New Scientist 29 October 2022
Bees have emotions too. Who’d have thunk? Researchers have successfully introduced bumblebees to...
Read MoreEVOLUTION
The search for Ancestor X by Colin Barras in New Scientist 3 September 2022
Homo sapiens did not simply spring from a single ancestor. It is beginning to look like H....
Read MoreLANGUAGE
Mother tongue by Andrea Valentino in New Scientist 26 November 2022
We will never know how and when language emerged but we are getting closer. You’ll have heard of...
Read MoreNEUROSCIENCE
Mind-reading AI decodes thoughts from brain scans by Alex Wilkins in New Scientist 22 October 2022
Viewing brain scans now allows us to read minds. Researchers have successfully trained algorithms...
Read MorePHILOSOPHY
Nietzsche and the machines by Sebastian Sunday Greve in The Philosopher’s Magazine 4 June 2021
We need to think about how we and advanced AI are going to live together. The thrust of Greve’s...
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