These Engineers Want to Build Conscious Robots. Others Say It’s a Bad Idea.
Was it conscious?

The downside of adhering to any form of theory regarding consciousness could be that it can open up the possibility of criticism. Self-awareness is certainly significant, but aren't other important aspects of consciousness? Is it possible to call something conscious when it's not a conscious experience to us?

The Dr. Chella believes that consciousness cannot exist without language and has been creating robots that are able to form internal monologues, expressing thoughts to themselves , and reflecting on what they see surrounding them. A robot he has developed was recently able see itself in mirrors passing what's likely to be the most well-known test for self-consciousness in animals.

Joshua Bongard, a roboticist at the University of Vermont and a former participant in the Creative Machines Lab, believes that consciousness isn't only composed of mental and cognitive activity it also has a fundamentally physical aspect. Bongard has come up with a species known as xenobots comprised of frog cells that are linked in order to let a programmer manipulate them as machines. Based on Professor Dr. Bongard, it's not only that animals and humans have evolved to adjust to their environment and interact with one another. Our tissue has evolved in order to serve these functions as well as our cells evolved in order to serve our tissues. "What we are is intelligent machines made of intelligent machines made of intelligent machines, all the way down," Dr. Bongard said.

In the summer of 2012, at the time both Dr. Lipson and Dr. Chen unveiled their latest robot and the Google engineer declared the idea that the company's new chatbot, LaMDA, had a conscious mind and should be treated like a tiny child. The claim was met with suspicion, mostly due to the fact that according to said Dr. Lipson noted, the chatbot was processing "a code that is written to complete a task." There was no core structure of consciousness, as other researchers claimed, but only perception of being conscious. In the end, Dr. Lipson added: "The robot wasn't self-aware. It's similar to cheating."

However, with all the disagreement and disagreement, who can decide what is cheating?

Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Riverside who has written on artificial consciousness. He said that the problem with the general confusion was that, given the speed at which the technology is developing, humanity will likely develop a robot which many believe is conscious, even before we have agreed on the standards of consciousness. If that occurs is the robot to be given rights? Freedom? Do we want it to be coded so that experience satisfaction when it does what it is supposed to do? Should it be allowed to speak on its own? To vote?

(Such questions have inspired an entire genre of science fiction, as seen in novels by authors like Isaac Asimov and Kazuo Ishiguro and in TV shows like "Westworld" and "Black Mirror.")
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