{"id":73795,"date":"2017-11-15T22:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T06:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/heres-how-to-get-to-conscious-machines-neuroscientists-say"},"modified":"2017-11-15T22:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T06:05:14","slug":"heres-how-to-get-to-conscious-machines-neuroscientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/heres-how-to-get-to-conscious-machines-neuroscientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How to Get to Conscious Machines, Neuroscientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-to-get-to-conscious-machines-neuroscientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like most cerebral movies, <em>Ex Machina <\/em>leaves the conclusion up to the viewer: was Ava actually conscious? In doing so, it also cleverly avoids a thorny question that has challenged most AI-centric movies to date: what is consciousness, and can machines have it?<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood producers aren\u2019t the only people stumped. As machine intelligence barrels forward at breakneck speed\u2014not only exceeding human performance on games such as <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.openai.com\/dota-2\/\">DOTA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/03\/16\/google-beating-grandmaster-sedol-is-bigger-than-ibm-beating-kasparov\/\">Go<\/a>, but doing so <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/23\/deepminds-new-ai-taught-itself-to-be-the-worlds-greatest-go-player\/\">without the need for human expertise<\/a>\u2014the question has once more entered the scientific mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Are machines on the verge of consciousness?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/11\/01\/heres-how-to-get-to-conscious-machines-neuroscientists-say\/?utm_content=buffer1f605&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-su&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/11\/01\/heres-how-to-get-to-co...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most cerebral movies, Ex Machina leaves the conclusion up to the viewer: was Ava actually conscious? In doing so, it also cleverly avoids a thorny question that has challenged most AI-centric movies to date: what is consciousness, and can machines have it? Hollywood producers aren\u2019t the only people stumped. As machine intelligence barrels forward [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73795","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=73795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}