Attention, Consciousness and Genuine AI
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness September 1, 2024 Víctor Cantero-Flores
In his book The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence (2023), Carlos Montemayor proposes, among other things, an account of genuine artificial intelligence (IA) in terms of the notion of attention. This notion, when disconnected from problematic notions like phenomenal consciousness, can account for epistemic agency, which is a central feature of intelligent behavior. This paper...