Holding on to job becomes harder as robots get a grip by Tom Knowles in The Times 20 November 2020
Seriously dexterous robots are right around the corner. It was only a matter of time before...
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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
Artificial intelligence: the practical legal issues by John Buyers 2018
The law and AI are out of sync. There are some areas of the law which more or less address...
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AI bot becomes therapist for the lonely by Emma Yeomans in The Times 3 November 2020
Chatbots get better and better. Mitsuku, otherwise known as Kuki, is a chatbot with a difference....
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Holding on to job becomes harder as robots get a grip by Tom Knowles in The Times 20 November 2020
Seriously dexterous robots are right around the corner. It was only a matter of time before...
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Animal languages by Eva Meijer 2016
Dr Doolittle lives again. This is a truly wide-ranging canter through the ways in which many types...
Read MoreEVOLUTION
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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Concepts in a Probabilistic Language of Thought by Noah D. Goodman et al, 14 June 2014
An elegant explanation of language and thought and how they relate to each other. This is the sort...
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious by Sara Reardon in Nature 27 October 2020
Neuroscience’s definition of consciousness is in a complete muddle. Research labs are now...
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The sociological imagination by C Wright Mills 1959
The worries of a sociologist 60 years ago are pertinent today. Back in 1959, C. Wright Mills...
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