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Researchers Are Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots!

If we can create a machine that will have consciousness on par with a human, this will eclipse everything else we've done.
BryarBy BryarFebruary 8, 2023Updated:February 8, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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The year 2022 was a great year for artificial intelligence, particularly with the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the business has shown absolutely no signs of tapering off.

Chatbots as well as image generators continue to be far from the ultimate robotic frontier, for a number of industry leaders. Then up? Consciousness.

“This subject had become taboo,” Hod Lipson, the hardware engineer responsible for the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, told The New York Times. “We had been practically forbidden from discussing it -‘ Don’t talk about the c-word; You will not get tenure, so I’d to conceal it as something different at first. “

The issue of consciousness is among the longest and most conflicting questions in the artificial intelligence area. Even though to some it is science fiction – and really continues to be the plot of numerous sci fi books, comics, and movies – to others, Lipson, it is a goal, one that will unquestionably alter human life as we know it for good.

“This isn’t just another research issue we are focusing on – this’s the issue,’ he stated. “This is larger compared to anything we are able to do to get rid of cancer.

“If we are able to develop a machine that will have consciousness comparable to people, this can eclipse everything else we have done,” he said. “The device is able to treat cancer,” said he.

Obviously, the biggest issue for the market with the consciousness question is, apart from the technical challenge that it presents, the idea itself doesn’t have a solid definition. Consciousness is a hazy and debatable notion philosophically. Psychologically, attempts to link consciousness down to certain mind functions or usually signifiers often fall flat, as the NYT article points out. Additionally, there’re a number of deeply ethical concerns which come up with just the idea of machine consciousness, particularly in relation to machine labor.

Lipson has his own definition of awareness, and that is the ability to “imagine yourself in the future,” as the NYT reports. The engineer has thus focused a good deal of his career on trying to build adaptable devices – generalized intelligence which could learn to develop inside the mechanical body in reaction to changing environments as well as injuries or errors.

For different words: A machine that can figure out how to correct as well as discover faster because models do today, but additionally the capability to picture how it might be much better and then develop to fulfill that vision. It is a little distinction, but it’s crucial.

But given that consciousness does not have defined definition, it is difficult to cosign any specific one.

Additionally it is difficult to ignore the fact that humans have a tendency to anthropomorphize anything from pets to toasters as well as veggies. In the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics, these kinds of a tendency is currently present, because people who develop devices continuously project human characteristics, both intellectual and physical, onto the products they produce.

To that end, it is usually worth pondering if these devices have the characteristics that scientists like Lipson imagine they’ll one day have, or whether researchers are projecting humanity, and the natural world, and anything else you wish to call it, onto very large not aware devices, reflecting back what they want to find out, instead of what’s.

“There’s the hubris of wishing to produce life,” Lipson told the NYT. “It is similar to going to the moon, the greatest challenge.”

‘Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It’s the Last Word. [The New York Times]

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