Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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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
Bigger brain cells work better by Jessica Hamzelou in NewScientist 5 May 2018
Bigger is better after all. In short, people with bigger, faster neurons have higher IQs, think...
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Building Machines that Learn and Think for Themselves by M Botvinick et al in Behavioural and Brain Sciences 2017
Homing in on the conceptual design of a thinking machine. There is growing agreement all round on...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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The workings of a dog’s mind by Chris Baraniuk in NewScientist 7 April 2018
Not much difference between your dog and Pepper. Researchers successfully track the neural...
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Finger points to earlier Africa exit by Andy Coghlan in NewScientist 14 April 2018
Yet another datapoint re-writing human history. Researchers have discovered a single finger bone...
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The Shallowness of Google Translate by Douglas Hofstadter in The Antlantic 30 January 2018
Understanding the point about understanding the point. We are all familiar with the point that...
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Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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The mind doesn’t work that way by Jerry Fodor 2000
A cautionary note on the validity of computational theory of mind. His book is 18 years old now...
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