Stochastic synaptic plasticity underlying compulsion in a model of addiction by Vincent Pascoli et al in Nature 20 December 2018
The stochastic nature of neuronal networks in decision making. An intriguing experiment shows that...
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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
Rogue traders by Daniel Cossins in NewScientist 22 December 2018
Fungi can do economics too. Cossins describes three pieces of research that show that non-human...
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Affect regulation and the origin of the self by Allan N. Schore 1994/2016
Self regulation emerges during the first 18 months of life. Too many books on the topic of...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Quora answer to Is reinforcement learning a dead end? by Sridhar Mahadevan
Trenchant critique of reinforcement learning. Mahadevan, a fellow of the AAAI, sets out his...
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Rogue traders by Daniel Cossins in NewScientist 22 December 2018
Fungi can do economics too. Cossins describes three pieces of research that show that non-human...
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Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari 2016
A fascinating but doom-laden account of our future. Harari is a no-holds-barred materialist. With...
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The kingdom of speech by Tom Wolfe 2016
Asks the right question. Not sure about the answer. Wolfe starts by nailing the key question. We...
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Stochastic synaptic plasticity underlying compulsion in a model of addiction by Vincent Pascoli et al in Nature 20 December 2018
The stochastic nature of neuronal networks in decision making. An intriguing experiment shows that...
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The righteous mind by Jonathan Haidt 2012
Morally, we’re largely intuitive, with limited reasoning powers. The righteous mind is a difficult...
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