Supercomputer simulates key brain centre in real time by Edd Gent in NewScientist 12 October 2019
Sailing into new computing waters. Neuromorphic computing is seen as potentially fertile territory...
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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
Brain work by Neil Savage in Nature 17 October 2019
Brain research is taking off. There is now a respectable number of substantial national and...
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Who needs emotions edited by J-M Fellous and MA Arbib 2005
An unemotional analysis of robot emotions. The book consists of a series of papers by various...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Supercomputer simulates key brain centre in real time by Edd Gent in NewScientist 12 October 2019
Sailing into new computing waters. Neuromorphic computing is seen as potentially fertile territory...
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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...
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Who we are and how we got here by David Reich 2018
Humans are really mixed up. The book is focussed on what DNA call tell us about human origins....
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...
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Brain work by Neil Savage in Nature 17 October 2019
Brain research is taking off. There is now a respectable number of substantial national and...
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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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