{"id":179414,"date":"2023-12-28T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T05:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/can-digital-computers-ever-achieve-consciousness"},"modified":"2023-12-28T23:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T05:23:56","slug":"can-digital-computers-ever-achieve-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/can-digital-computers-ever-achieve-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Can Digital Computers Ever Achieve Consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJQYBWUqdIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The question of whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve <i>consciousness<\/i> is a common theme in science fiction. Could robots ever truly feel anything\u2014like love, hate, or fear\u2014or would they be all \u201cdark inside\u201d, experiencing nothing at all?<\/p>\n<p>It is more important than ever to answer this question correctly. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer <i>merely<\/i> a matter of science fiction. AI are increasingly capable of producing art and mastering the use of language, raising serious questions about whether AI are already capable of <i>consciousness<\/i>, or if not yet, then soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve consciousness is a common theme in science fiction. Could robots ever truly feel anything\u2014like love, hate, or fear\u2014or would they be all \u201cdark inside\u201d, experiencing nothing at all? It is more important than ever to answer this question correctly. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer merely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179414","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}