What is it about?
"The Creation of a Conscious Machine" corresponds to the Requirements and Specifications document of a Top-down process to implement Synthetic Consciousness in autonomous agents. As a Requirements document, it describes the extraordinary intellectual benefits to be gained from the implementation of conscious machines. It surveys historical attempts to define and implement machine intelligence and the insights they reveal. In particular, it examines the Turing Test in detail as a measure of machine intelligence. The current version (2) extends these specifications to Generative AI.
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Why is it important?
Much of research in AI defines consciousness as a subjective state and seeks to replicate the experience of being conscious. "The Creation of a Conscious Machine" proposes to define consciousness as the capability to generate and act upon representations of the self. This is consistent with interpretations dating back thousands of years in the Mediterranean cultures. However, it represents a radical departure in the context of AI research. This new understanding makes it possible to implement Synthetic Consciousness in conventional computers. The advent of Generative AI, brings this far closer. Applying the specifications of consciousness to LLMs can generate, overnight, a form of consciousness that will exceed human capabilities.
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When I wrote the first version of this text, about ten years ago, I envisionned a population of robotic agents interacting with individual humans. The same specification, embodied in LLMs would result in a form of consciousness that will dwarf the human experience. We are on the cusp of the singularity.
Mr Jean E. Tardy
Sysjet inc.
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This page is a summary of: Contents, December 2023, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9781501518317-toc.
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