AI beats professionals at six-player poker by Douglas Heaven in Nature 18 July 2019
Forget the ‘tell’: poker is just another game for AI. A collaborative effort between Facebook and...
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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
Emotions- from brain to robot by MA Arbib and J-M Fellous in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12 December 2004
Emotions are critical for action selection in both humans and robots. It is tempting to think that...
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Mama’s last hug by Frans de Waal, 2019
Human emotions are just an extension of animal emotions. Another cracking read from one of the...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
AI beats professionals at six-player poker by Douglas Heaven in Nature 18 July 2019
Forget the ‘tell’: poker is just another game for AI. A collaborative effort between Facebook and...
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Mama’s last hug by Frans de Waal, 2019
Human emotions are just an extension of animal emotions. Another cracking read from one of the...
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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....
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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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Why everyone else is a hypocrite by Robert Kurzban 2010
Important insights into the brain delivered in lighthearted way. Kurzban delivers an...
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Free will by Sam Harris 2012
A crystal clear exposition of why free will is an illusion. This is a great book. It is short and...
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