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What It Is To Be Conscious: Exploring The Plasibility Of Consciousness In Deep Learning Computers, Peter Davis
What It Is To Be Conscious: Exploring The Plasibility Of Consciousness In Deep Learning Computers, Peter Davis
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As artificial intelligence and robotics progress further and faster every day, designing and building a conscious computer appears to be on the horizon. Recent technological advances have allowed engineers and computer scientists to create robots and computer programs that were previously impossible. The development of these highly sophisticated robots and AI programs has thus prompted the age-old question: can a computer be conscious? The answer relies on addressing two key sub-problems. The first is the nature of consciousness: what constitutes a system as conscious, or what properties does consciousness have? Secondly, does the physical make-up of the robot or computer …