Conscious-Robots team, winner of the 2K BotPrize 2010 contest, explains how their bot is designed. Originally published at AIGameDev (2010) Most of current efforts in the development of believable bots – bots that behave like human players – are based…
Category: Machine Consciousness
Pentti O Haikonen. Second Edition. World Scientific 2019. Haikonen’s book is perfect for those interested in Machine Consciousness. This updated edition includes new ideas and insights. This completely revised second edition of Consciousness and Robot Sentience begins with the big…
Spanish researchers discover a bot trying to kill her creator. This Artificial Intelligence, designed to fight in First-Person Shooter video games, was surprised while looking for a way to end the life of her creator in the real world.
No doubt we need better ways to test for consciousness, as much as we need better definitions. From the point of view of science, Consciousness is a controversial and quite elusive phenomenon and trying to build good tests is actually…
After 9 years of glory… We’re just back, and refurnished 🙂 Conscious-Robots.com was born back in 2006 and soon became to be known as the “official unofficial site of machine consciousness research community”. Of course, this might be opinable, but basically being…
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…
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…