Artificial Consciousness
From Homo Sapiens to Homo Silicus : Analyzing gaps in emergence of sentience in machines
What are the limitations and challenges of attempting to replicate human consciousness and knowledge in AI systems, given the inherently embodied and context-dependent nature of our knowledge representations? How can philosophy help navigate the sciences of intelligence? On 11th June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine infamously posted an article on twitter about his conversations with […]
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The ethical and social implications of creating conscious AI: Why we should grant them rights.
Agnes Admiraal & Nikki Moolhuijsen IntroductionThe world of AI has yielded many different types of highly intelligent algorithms, resulting in more humanoid AI. Some futurists (Kharpal, 2018) believe that machines will become more intelligent than humans within the next century. Thus far, what has distinguished us from these machines is our consciousness, however, this may […]
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