DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby by Davide Castelvecchi in Nature 11 July 2022
Researchers continue to run at the second hurdle on the race to AGI. Researchers at DeepMind have...
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A new book by Rupert Robson
THE SENTIENT ROBOT
The Last Two Hurdles in the Race to Build Artificial Superintelligence
Published October 2022
Available to pre-order now
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
Yann LeCun’s vision for creating autonomous machines by Ben Dickson in VentureBeat 010722
Artificial general intelligence is back on track. After the Google fiasco relating to misplaced...
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“Humans police the expression of sex and gender much more than other primates do” by Rowan Hooper interviewing Frans de Waal in New Scientist 7 May 2022
We can learn a lot about gender from apes. What Frans de Waal knows about chimps and bonobos is...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby by Davide Castelvecchi in Nature 11 July 2022
Researchers continue to run at the second hurdle on the race to AGI. Researchers at DeepMind have...
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“Humans police the expression of sex and gender much more than other primates do” by Rowan Hooper interviewing Frans de Waal in New Scientist 7 May 2022
We can learn a lot about gender from apes. What Frans de Waal knows about chimps and bonobos is...
Read MoreEVOLUTION
Early man’s greatest invention? The handle by Kaya Burgess in The Times 16 March 2022
Is the handle better than fire and the wheel? There is always going to be a debate as to which of...
Read MoreLANGUAGE
Playing with fire by Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater in New Scientist 26 March 2022
Strange how we still cannot agree on the origins of language. The authors have just brought out a...
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Special brain cells may signal when to start a new memory by Clare Wilson in New Scientists 12 March 2022
The brain continues to give up its secrets. We have a fair idea as to how memories are stored in...
Read MorePHILOSOPHY
Illusionism as a theory of consciousness edited by Keith Frankish 2017
Illusionism still wins by a short head. Acres of print is given over to increasingly elaborate...
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