{"id":86628,"date":"2019-01-12T12:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/darpa-wants-to-build-conscious-robots-using-insect-brains"},"modified":"2019-01-12T12:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:42:39","slug":"darpa-wants-to-build-conscious-robots-using-insect-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/darpa-wants-to-build-conscious-robots-using-insect-brains","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-wants-to-build-conscious-robots-using-insect-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s emerging technologies unit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index.php?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=5fdb0522f0667e24e19274519b8ef011&tab=core&_cview=0\">put out a call<\/a> last week for proposals that use insect brains to control robots \u2014 because they could be used to create efficient new models for artificial intelligence, but also because they could be used to explore the meaning of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNature has forced on these small insects drastic miniaturization and energy efficiency, some having only a few hundred neurons in a compact form-factor, while maintaining basic functionality,\u201d reads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/utils\/view?id=bb2722b7974765cc9f4e93fea8efbacf\">a document<\/a> in the proposal. \u201cFurthermore, these organisms are possibly able to display increased subjectivity of experience.\u201d It goes on to say that there\u2019s evidence suggesting that \u201ceven small insects have subjective experiences, the first step towards a concept of \u2018consciousness.\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpa-wants-conscious-robots-insect-brains\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpa-wants-conscious-robots-insect-brains<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon\u2019s emerging technologies unit put out a call last week for proposals that use insect brains to control robots \u2014 because they could be used to create efficient new models for artificial intelligence, but also because they could be used to explore the meaning of consciousness. \u201cNature has forced on these small insects drastic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86628","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}