Children get attached to their toys. They bring them on trips, care for them, ascribe human qualities to them, and even worry about them. As it turns out, adults do too, especially when these toys lend themselves to human empathy. An object triggers an empathetic response when it moves on its own, has eyes, and/orContinue reading “Should we model robots after humans?”
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Cyber-sentience: detecting “artificial” consciousness
“We already have impressive models and simulations of a couple dozen of the brain’s several hundred regions,” writes Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near.1 But how accurate can these models get before they stop being models, and how advanced can artificial intelligence be before it is no longer artificial? We are getting closer andContinue reading “Cyber-sentience: detecting “artificial” consciousness”
Brown University Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative 