{"id":164490,"date":"2023-05-24T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/can-machines-be-self-aware-new-research-explains-how-this-could-happen"},"modified":"2023-05-24T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:23:45","slug":"can-machines-be-self-aware-new-research-explains-how-this-could-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/can-machines-be-self-aware-new-research-explains-how-this-could-happen","title":{"rendered":"Can Machines Be Self-Aware? New Research Explains How This Could Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-machines-be-self-aware-new-research-explains-how-this-could-happen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/michaeltimothybennett.com\/research\">sequence of papers<\/a> accepted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2023\/\">16th Annual Conference in Artificial General Intelligence<\/a> in Stockholm, I pose a mechanistic explanation for these phenomena. They explain how we may build a machine that\u2019s aware of itself, of others, of itself as perceived by others, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><b>Intelligence and Intent<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A lot of what we call intelligence boils down to making predictions about the world with incomplete information. The less information a machine needs to make accurate predictions, the more \u201cintelligent\u201d it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sequence of papers accepted for the 16th Annual Conference in Artificial General Intelligence in Stockholm, I pose a mechanistic explanation for these phenomena. They explain how we may build a machine that\u2019s aware of itself, of others, of itself as perceived by others, and so on. Intelligence and Intent A lot of what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164490","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}