A new trinity in The Economist 4 January 2020
AI training is more human than artificial. In a technology report devoted to China, The Economist...
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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
AI-designed drug to start human trials for first time in Financial Times 31 January 2020
AI achieves another breakthrough. For some time now, AI has helped identify and crank through...
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Fly atlas in The Economist 25 January 2020
The human connectome is within reach. Well, in the next few decades at any rate. Researchers have...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
A new trinity in The Economist 4 January 2020
AI training is more human than artificial. In a technology report devoted to China, The Economist...
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...
Read MoreEVOLUTION
Robots that come alive in The Economist 18 January 2020
We can now manufacture biorobots from scratch. You have heard of genetic engineering as the...
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...
Read MoreNEUROSCIENCE
Fly atlas in The Economist 25 January 2020
The human connectome is within reach. Well, in the next few decades at any rate. Researchers have...
Read MorePHILOSOPHY
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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