Use this tag for questions on artificial sentience, particularly in regard to AGI or superintelligence. For instance "Are the robots on Westworld sentient because they have the ability to suffer or is their ability to feel suffering what makes them sentient?"
Questions tagged [sentience]
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Could humans hurt a conscious or sentient AI?
If a conscious AI is possible, would it also be possible for someone who knows what they are doing to torture (or hurt) the AI? Could this be avoided? How?
This question deals with computer-based AI, not robots, which are as conscious as people…
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Current limitations to artificial consciousness
With some knowledge of machine learning and deep learning, it seems very unlikely for AI to develop into the consciousness that we imagine.
To me, consciousness requires a new framework that is very different from what we have today, as current…
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Could an AI be sentient?
In theory, could an AI become sentient, as in learning and becoming self-aware, all from its source code?
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Could an AI break free form being controlled by us?
In lots of sci-fi, it seems that AI becomes sentient (Terminator, Peter F Hamilton's SI (commonwealth saga), etc.)
However, I'm interested in whether this is actually plausible, whether an AI could actually break free form being controlled by us,…
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If we achieve sentience using mutable hardware, will it be possible to make a copy of that "brain" and its active state?
Hardware comes in two forms, basically: immutable, such as RAM, and mutable, such as FPGAs.
In animals, neurological connections gain in strength by changing the physical structure of the brain. This is analogous to FPGAs whereby signal strength is…
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Is it likely that a sentient AI experience synesthesia?
The reason I ask this question is because we humans tend to compartmentalize our sensory inputs, except in some individuals that experience synesthesia. If an Artificial Intelligence Entity (AIE) can correlate all sensory input (as a bunch of…
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