The possibility of sentient artificial intelligence has moved from speculative philosophy to a practical interdisciplinary problem for AI, robotics, and human-robot interaction. Large language models, multimodal agents, and embodied robots can now produce first-person reports, maintain dialogue, use tools, act through sensors and effectors, and participate in socially meaningful contexts. These...
This commentary discusses relationships among the related concepts of artificial wisdom, artificial phronesis, AGI and artificial consciousness, anchored in McGregor’s framework The Philosophy of Artificial Wisdom.
Artificial general intelligence revived in recent years after people achieved significant advances in machine learning and deep learning. This leads to the thinking of how real intelligence could be created. Consciousness theories believe that general intelligence is essentially conscious, yet no universal definition is agreed upon. In this work, global workspace (GW) theory is implemented and...
Can we conceive machines that can formulate autonomous intentions and make conscious decisions? If so, how would this ability affect their ethical behavior? Some case studies help us understand how advances in understanding artificial consciousness can contribute to creating ethical AI systems.
Recently, the interest in robots capable of experiencing empathy and displaying emotions has grown. This trend can be attributed to the pervasive presence of robots in many environments, such as homes, offices, museums, and hospitals, that require more empathic and reliable human-machine relationships. Recent studies demonstrated that providing the robot with the ability to think aloud improves...
to employ robots as tools to model and to understand biological aspects of consciousness;• to study procedures aimed at mea sur ing consciousness in robots;• to discuss ethical prob lems emerging through the overlap of robotics and consciousness. A Brief History of Robot ConsciousnessTo the best of the author's knowledge, the first occurrence of the word "artificial consciousness" is found in...
There are many developed theories and implemented artificial systems in the area of machine consciousness, while none has achieved that. For a possible approach, we are interested in implementing a system by integrating different theories. Along this way, this paper proposes a model based on the global workspace theory and attention mechanism, and providing a fundamental framework for our...
Abstract Purpose of Review The theory of consciousness is a subject that has kept scholars and researchers challenged for centuries. Even today it is not possible to define what consciousness is. This has led to the theorization of different models of consciousness. Starting from Baars’ Global Workspace Theory, this paper examines the models of cognitive architectures that are inspired by it...
The scope of the paper is to encourage scientists and engineering to avoid to do what Einstein pointed out as being the hallmark of folly. Machine consciousness scholars must be brave enough to step out of the beaten path. There must be some big recurrent conceptual mistakes that prevent science and technology from addressing machine consciousness.
L’articolo bersaglio di Falcone et al. (2018) prende spunto dal sag-gio di Kaplan (2017) e offre una rassegna ragionata sulle sfide che ci attendono nei prossimi anni dal punto di vista economico, sociale e tecnico, grazie alle nuove tecnologie basate sull’Intelligenza Artificiale. Un aspetto che riveste importanza in questo dibattito riguarda la co-scienza artificiale: infatti, Kaplan (ibidem,...
Recently, there has been considerable interest and effort to the possibility to design and implement conscious robots, i.e., the chance that robots may have subjective experiences. Typical approaches as the global workspace, information integration, enaction, cognitive mechanisms, embodiment, i.e., the Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness, henceforth, GOFAC, share the same conceptual...