The Creation of a Conscious Machine: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
This book presents a groundbreaking journey into the world of Generative AI technology and offers an in-depth look at the prospect of AI achieving consciousness. The book navigates through various historical and modern perspectives on AI, from ancient myths to the Turing Test to the latest in technological advancements. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of creating a conscious AI, including the specifications for synthetic consciousness and the integration of AI with human cognition. The book questions whether generative AI can meet the traditional criteria of consciousness and how this might be realized.

FEATURES
  • Specifies the design choices and implementation strategies that must be followed to successfully build machines that are conscious
  • Explores the entire spectrum of AI development, from ancient origins to the potential future of conscious machines
  • Offers a critical examination of the Turing Test, its variations, and its relevance to modern AI
  • Provides insights into the potential paths and challenges in achieving synthetic consciousness in AI
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The Creation of a Conscious Machine: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
This book presents a groundbreaking journey into the world of Generative AI technology and offers an in-depth look at the prospect of AI achieving consciousness. The book navigates through various historical and modern perspectives on AI, from ancient myths to the Turing Test to the latest in technological advancements. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of creating a conscious AI, including the specifications for synthetic consciousness and the integration of AI with human cognition. The book questions whether generative AI can meet the traditional criteria of consciousness and how this might be realized.

FEATURES
  • Specifies the design choices and implementation strategies that must be followed to successfully build machines that are conscious
  • Explores the entire spectrum of AI development, from ancient origins to the potential future of conscious machines
  • Offers a critical examination of the Turing Test, its variations, and its relevance to modern AI
  • Provides insights into the potential paths and challenges in achieving synthetic consciousness in AI
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The Creation of a Conscious Machine: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence

The Creation of a Conscious Machine: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence

by Jean E. Tardy
The Creation of a Conscious Machine: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence

The Creation of a Conscious Machine: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence

by Jean E. Tardy

Overview

This book presents a groundbreaking journey into the world of Generative AI technology and offers an in-depth look at the prospect of AI achieving consciousness. The book navigates through various historical and modern perspectives on AI, from ancient myths to the Turing Test to the latest in technological advancements. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of creating a conscious AI, including the specifications for synthetic consciousness and the integration of AI with human cognition. The book questions whether generative AI can meet the traditional criteria of consciousness and how this might be realized.

FEATURES
  • Specifies the design choices and implementation strategies that must be followed to successfully build machines that are conscious
  • Explores the entire spectrum of AI development, from ancient origins to the potential future of conscious machines
  • Offers a critical examination of the Turing Test, its variations, and its relevance to modern AI
  • Provides insights into the potential paths and challenges in achieving synthetic consciousness in AI

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501521737
Publisher: Mercury Learning and Information
Publication date: 12/27/2023
Series: MLI Generative AI Series
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jean E. Tardy is a systems analyst and expert in artificial intelligence. Following a rigorous top-down process, he developed a detailed system architecture to implement synthetic consciousness in autonomous agents.

Table of Contents

1: Consciousness as Cognitive Capability
2: Ancient Origins of the AI Quest
3: AI Clarifies Human Cognition
4: Early Failures Hamper the Quest
5: AI Research and the Fear of Success
6: The Engineering of Consciousness
7: Archaic Representations of AI
8: The Intelligence of Automatons
9: Analysis of the Turing Test
10: Evaluation of the Turing Test
11: Discarded Avenues of AI Investigations 12: A Successful Design Strategy
13: AI and the Human Entity
14: The Aware Human as Baseline
15: A Relational Template for Consciousness 16: Lucid Self-Transformation
17: Specifications of Synthetic Consciousness 18: Generative AI and Consciousness
19: The Lucid Self-Transformation of Generative AI
Conclusion
References
Index
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