Machine learning poses significant risks that need to be managed by Mark Yallop in FT 24 December 2019
Algorithms in capital markets trading are changing shape. Watch out. In this clear insight on...
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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
The deep history of ourselves by Joseph LeDoux 2019
A soup to nuts history of life, humanity and consciousness. LeDoux rightly roots his account of...
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How to think about evolution by Graham Lawton in NewScientist 14 December 2019
The difference between frequency and adaptation in evolution. In a neat little series giving...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Machine learning poses significant risks that need to be managed by Mark Yallop in FT 24 December 2019
Algorithms in capital markets trading are changing shape. Watch out. In this clear insight on...
Read MoreETHOLOGY
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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The deep history of ourselves by Joseph LeDoux 2019
A soup to nuts history of life, humanity and consciousness. LeDoux rightly roots his account of...
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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Brain work by Neil Savage in Nature 17 October 2019
Brain research is taking off. There is now a respectable number of substantial national and...
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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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