Autonomous military drones may have attacked humans by David Hambling in New Scientist 5 June 2021
This genie is not going back into the bottle. Last year, autonomous lethal drones apparently...
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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
Cooperative AI: machines must learn to find common ground by Allan Dafoe et al in Nature 4 May 2021
The future will be about the relationship between AI and humans. This excellent article describes...
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Klara and the sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 2021
Is Klara a sentient robot? At one level, we can never know, just as we cannot tell for sure that...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Autonomous military drones may have attacked humans by David Hambling in New Scientist 5 June 2021
This genie is not going back into the bottle. Last year, autonomous lethal drones apparently...
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Apes adopt orphans in display of altruism by Rhys Blakely in The Times 19 March 2021
Bonobos empathise, just like us. Researchers have now discovered rare instances of female bonobos...
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Match and mix in The Economist 3 October 2020
Human beings are a lot more diverse than you first thought. It turns out that some hybrid species...
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Chimpanzees seem to speak in sentences of three or more calls by Michael Marshall in New Scientist 20 February 2021
We are learning more and more about animal communications. Recent research with chimpanzees shows...
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Metazoa by Peter Godfrey-Smith 2020
Organisms with a nervous system have consciousness. Hmmm. Peter Godfrey-Smith, he of octopus fame,...
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A machine that thinks like us by Chris Stokel-Walker in New Scientist 17 April 2021
The meaning of consciousness continues to confuse people. Apparently, researchers have developed a...
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