{"id":155022,"date":"2023-01-09T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T04:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-say-theyre-now-actively-trying-to-build-conscious-robots"},"modified":"2023-01-09T22:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T04:24:02","slug":"scientists-say-theyre-now-actively-trying-to-build-conscious-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-say-theyre-now-actively-trying-to-build-conscious-robots","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They\u2019re Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyre-now-actively-trying-to-build-conscious-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But for some industry leaders, chatbots and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-sell-images-dall-e\" class=\"\">image-generators<\/a> are far from the final robotic frontier. Next up? Consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis topic was taboo,\u201d Hod Lipson, the mechanical engineer in charge of the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/06\/science\/robots-artificial-intelligence-consciousness.html\" class=\"\">told <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe were almost forbidden from talking about it \u2014 \u2018Don\u2019t talk about the c-word; you won\u2019t get tenure\u2019 \u2014 so in the beginning I had to disguise it, like it was something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consciousness is one of the longest standing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/engineer-begged-google-test-experimental-ai-sentient\" class=\"\">most divisive<\/a>, questions in the field of artificial intelligence. And while to some it\u2019s science fiction \u2014 and indeed has been the plot of countless sci-fi books, comics, and films \u2014 to others, like Lipson, it\u2019s a goal, one that would undoubtedly change human life as we know it for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But for some industry leaders, chatbots and image-generators are far from the final robotic frontier. Next up? Consciousness. \u201cThis topic was taboo,\u201d Hod Lipson, the mechanical engineer in charge of the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, told The New York Times. \u201cWe were almost forbidden from talking about it \u2014 \u2018Don\u2019t talk about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155022","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}