Can a Machine be Conscious? Towards Universal Criteria for Machine Consciousness

C Badea, NA Anwar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.15369, 2024 - arxiv.org
As artificially intelligent systems become more anthropomorphic and pervasive, and their
potential impact on humanity more urgent, discussions about the possibility of machine …

Machine Consciousness as Pseudoscience: The Myth of Conscious Machines

EC Garrido-Merchán - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.07340, 2024 - arxiv.org
The hypothesis of conscious machines has been debated since the invention of the notion of
artificial intelligence, powered by the assumption that the computational intelligence …

[PDF][PDF] Machine consciousness: a computational model

JA Starzyk, DK Prasad - Brain-inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2010), 2010 - aslab.org
Despite many efforts, there are no computational models of consciousness that can be used
to design conscious intelligent machines. This is mainly attributed to available definitions of …

General intelligence: An ecumenical heuristic for artificial consciousness research?

H Shevlin - Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, 2020 - World Scientific
The science of consciousness has made great strides in recent decades. However, the
proliferation of competing theories makes it difficult to reach consensus about artificial …

Conscious machines: A possibility? If so, how?

R Manzotti, A Chella - Journal of Artificial Intelligence and …, 2020 - World Scientific
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 …

[PDF][PDF] To Build Conscious Machines, Focus on General Intelligence: A Framework for the Assessment of Consciousness in Biological and Artificial Systems.

H Shevlin - AAAI Spring Symposium: Towards Conscious AI …, 2019 - academia.edu
Consciousness presents us with a number of different explanatory challenges. The most
fundamental, sometimes called the 'Hard Problem', is focused on how subjective states can …

Machine consciousness: Response to commentaries

A Sloman - International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 2010 - World Scientific
This is a reply to commentaries on my article" An Alternative to Working on Machine
Consciousness". Reading the commentaries caused me to write a lengthy background …

23 Robots and Machine Consciousness

A Chella - Cognitive Robotics - direct.mit.edu
Building a conscious robot is an enormous scientific and technological challenge. Debates
about the possibility of sentient robots and the positive outcomes and risks for human beings …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation and development of consciousness in artificial cognitive systems

RA Moreno, AS de Miguel, AL Espino - Ph. D. dissertation, 2011 - e-archivo.uc3m.es
Understanding human consciousness is considered one of the greatest challenges of
modern science. In fact, the challenge is not only in the study of human beings, but also in …

Robots and machine consciousness

A Chella - 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Building a conscious robot is an enormous scientific and technological challenge. Debates
about the possibility of sentient robots and the positive outcomes and risks for human beings …