Can robots become conscious? Conscious-Robots.com poll results Back in 2006 I started an online poll published in the frontpage of Conscious-Robots.com (that old authentic machine consciousness site, that I just turned into a 2016 modern posh blog ;-). Over these years…
Author: Raúl Arrabales
Call for Competitors – BotPrize 2014 Competition A Turing test for Non-Player Characters in Video Games http://human-machine.unizar.es/ The 2014 BotPrize competition challenges programmers / researchers / hobbyists to create a bot for UT2004 (a first-person shooter) that can fool opponents into…
These days, finding employment after graduation is a challenge regardless of your degree level. However, tough job markets are even more disheartening for doctoral graduates who have dedicated a significant amount of their lives and money to earning their degrees….
New Scientist cover story on Consciousness Issue 2917 Including an article on Machine Consciousness: Consciousness: Why we need to build sentient machines Features > Featurepp40-41 Only by building an artificial consciousness will we truly be able to understand the mysteries…
First International Workshop on Artificial Consciousness Taormina, Italy, September 2-6, 2013 at ECAL 2013 About this Workshop The workshop is devoted to the issue of artificial consciousness. In biological organisms, consciousness is considered to be the starting point for personal human…
AGI 2013 – Artificial General Intelligence 2013 – Beijing, July 31 – Aug 3 2013: Call for Papers It is our great pleasure to remind you about the Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, which will be held in Beijing, China,…
Coyote. A Tale of Unexpected Consequences. An intelligent robot coyote longs to be free… Elisabeth Rhett Woods Ekstasis Editions, Sep. 2011. This book at Amazon . This science fiction novel is not about consciousness, but one of the most…
EAIS 2012 2012 IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems Deadline extended: February, 15. 2012. This EAIS Edition will be held in Madrid, Spain, between May 17-18, 2012. One of the important research challenges today is to develop new…
CALL FOR PAPERS: Enaction: Challenges and Successes We are pleased to announce the AISB symposium “Enaction: Challenges and Successes” to take place during the AISB Annual Convention 2013, Univ. Exeter, UK, April 2-5th, 2013. http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/aisb/ Enaction represents one…
Paper submissions and special session proposals are invited to the International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (http://sentic.net/bics ) to be held in Beijing next June. TIMEFRAME • February 1st, 2013: Due date for special session proposals • February…