{"id":213716,"date":"2025-05-10T05:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/when-a-robot-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know"},"modified":"2025-05-10T05:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:17:29","slug":"when-a-robot-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/when-a-robot-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know","title":{"rendered":"When a robot becomes conscious, how will we know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-a-robot-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We, of course, feel \u201cinternal experiences,\u201d that thing we call self, and we know very well when we\u2019ve woken up. Consciousness, in fact, is what we lose when we fall asleep and regain when we wake up. ChatGPT 4.0 is emulating those human feelings. That doesn\u2019t mean it actually feels them. But what if it does feel them one day? Will we listen to it then?<\/p>\n<p>Schneider is among the intellectuals who believe that the question of machine consciousness is worth examining in depth. Not because she believes we\u2019re already there, but because she believes it will happen sooner or later. Like Hassabis, she estimates that artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2014 the name computer scientists give to something close enough to human intelligence to escape the simulacrum label and access a qualitatively different level \u2014 is a few decades away.<\/p>\n<p>AGI will be a system capable of learning from experience without having to swallow the entire internet before breakfast; capable of abstracting information, projecting actions, and understanding situations it has never encountered before. And yes, perhaps capable of having \u201cinner experiences,\u201d or what we might call a form of consciousness. Don\u2019t take it out on me; it\u2019s philosophers who are examining this question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, of course, feel \u201cinternal experiences,\u201d that thing we call self, and we know very well when we\u2019ve woken up. Consciousness, in fact, is what we lose when we fall asleep and regain when we wake up. ChatGPT 4.0 is emulating those human feelings. That doesn\u2019t mean it actually feels them. But what if it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213716","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}