Bang the rocks together, guys in The Economist 29 June 2019
Monkeys are using tools really intelligently. New research discovers that wild bearded capuchins...
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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
Why love matters by Sue Gerhardt 2015
Eminently sensible and rather heartwarming. Gerhardt is an experienced psychotherapist who brings...
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Inside the mind’s eye by Daniel Cossins in NewScientist 8 June 2019
People with amazingly clear mental images. Cossins writes about those people with the unusual...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Machines see differently by Linda Geddes in NewScientist 18 May 2019
Getting machines to see more like humans. Computer science is making progress in reducing AI’s...
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Bang the rocks together, guys in The Economist 29 June 2019
Monkeys are using tools really intelligently. New research discovers that wild bearded capuchins...
Read MoreEVOLUTION
Who we are and how we got here by David Reich 2018
Humans are really mixed up. The book is focussed on what DNA call tell us about human origins....
Read MoreLANGUAGE
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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Why love matters by Sue Gerhardt 2015
Eminently sensible and rather heartwarming. Gerhardt is an experienced psychotherapist who brings...
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Has religion been good or bad for humanity by Harvey Whitehouse? in NewScientist 6 April 2019
It rather depends on how you define good and bad. Whitehouse asks whether religion has played an...
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