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9781848211018

Artificial Beings The Conscience of a Conscious Machine

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    9781848211018

  • ISBN10:

    1848211015

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-06-15
  • Publisher: Wiley-ISTE

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Summary

This book demonstrates that not only is it possible to create entities with both consciousness and conscience, but that those entities demonstrate them in ways different from our own, thereby showing a new kind of consciousness.

Author Biography

Jacques Pitrat was a researcher at the French CNRS from 1967 to 2000 and for 8 years was Director of the AI Laboratory at University of Paris 6. His research has focused on various AI systems, mainly in the field of the most efficient application of metaknowledge. He has taught AI for more than 30 years, directed 70 theses and written five books on the subject. He is currently a researcher at LIP6 at University of Paris 6 and is a fellow of the AAAI and ECCAI.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on the Terminology
Presenting the Actors
The book
Human and artificial beings
The computer
The author
CAIA, an artificial AI scientist
The research domains of CAIA
Further reading
Consciousness and Conscience
Several meanings of "consciousness"
Extending the meaning of "conscience" for artificial beings
Why is it useful to build conscious artificial beings with a conscience?
Towards an artificial cognition
What Does "Itself" Mean for an Artificial Being?
Various versions of an individual
Variants of an individual
Cloning artificial beings
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Society of Mind
More on the subject
Some Aspects of Consciousness
Six aspects of consciousness
Some limits of consciousness
Why is Auto-observation Useful?
Auto-observation while carrying out a task
Auto-observation after the completion of a task
How to Observe Oneself
Interpreting
Adding supplementary orders
Using timed interruptions
Using the interruptions made by the operating system
Knowing its own state
Examining its own knowledge
The agents of the Society of Mind
The attention
What is "I"
The Conscience
The conscience of human beings
The conscience of an artificial being
Laws for artificial beings
Implementing a Conscience
Why is a conscience helpful?
The conscience of CAIA
Implicit principles
Explicit principles
The consciences in a society of individuals
Around the Conscience
Emotions
Changing its conscience
A new human conscience for our relationships with artificial beings
What is the Future for CAIA?
Appendices
Constraint Satisfaction Problems
How to implement some aspects of consciousness
Bibliography
Index
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