{"id":139974,"date":"2022-05-30T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/study-explores-the-concept-of-artificial-consciousness-in-the-context-of-the-film-being-john-malkovich"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:23:44","slug":"study-explores-the-concept-of-artificial-consciousness-in-the-context-of-the-film-being-john-malkovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/study-explores-the-concept-of-artificial-consciousness-in-the-context-of-the-film-being-john-malkovich","title":{"rendered":"Study explores the concept of artificial consciousness in the context of the film \u2018Being John Malkovich\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-explores-the-concept-of-artificial-consciousness-in-the-context-of-the-film-being-john-malkovich2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent technological advances, such as the development of increasingly sophisticated machine learning algorithms and robots, have sparked much debate about artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial consciousness. While many of the tools created to date have achieved remarkable results, there have been many discussions about what differentiates them from humans.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, computer scientists and neuroscientists have been pondering on the difference between <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">intelligence<\/a> and \u201cconsciousness,\u201d wondering whether machines will ever be able to attain the latter. Amar Singh, Assistant Professor at Banaras Hindu University, recently published a paper in a special issue of Springer Link\u2019s <i>AI &amp; Society<\/i> that explores these concepts by drawing parallels with the fantasy film \u201cBeing John Malkovich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing John Malkovich\u201d is a 1999 film directed by Spike Jonze and featuring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and other famous Hollywood stars. The film tells the story of a puppeteer who discovers a portal through which he can access the mind of the movie star John Malkovich, while also altering his being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent technological advances, such as the development of increasingly sophisticated machine learning algorithms and robots, have sparked much debate about artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial consciousness. While many of the tools created to date have achieved remarkable results, there have been many discussions about what differentiates them from humans. More specifically, computer scientists and neuroscientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}