The AI does not hate you by Tom Chivers 2019
Thinking AI might be an existential threat makes sense. Chivers’ book looks at the way that a...
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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
Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons by Ben Engelhard et al in Nature 27 June 2019
Dopamine has numerous ways in which to express itself. Decision-making in the brain is a complex...
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Hidden consciousness by Helen Thomson in NewScientist 29 June 2019
Is the thalamus at the heart of consciousness? There is a growing understanding of those who can...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
The AI does not hate you by Tom Chivers 2019
Thinking AI might be an existential threat makes sense. Chivers’ book looks at the way that a...
Read MoreETHOLOGY
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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Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons by Ben Engelhard et al in Nature 27 June 2019
Dopamine has numerous ways in which to express itself. Decision-making in the brain is a complex...
Read MorePHILOSOPHY
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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