Scientists Say They're Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots

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The artificial intelligence industry is showing no sign of slowing down, as evidenced by the launch of Openai's incredibly impressive ChatGPT.

The final robotic frontier is far away for some industry leaders. It is possible to be aware of consciousness.

The mechanical engineer in charge of the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University said that the topic was taboo.

One of the most divisive questions in artificial intelligence is consciousness. It's science fiction, but it's also a goal that would change human life as we know it for good.

The researcher said that the question was not just another research question. It's bigger than curing cancer.

This will eclipse everything else we've done if we can create a machine with consciousness like a human. It can cure cancer.

The biggest issue that the industry has with the question of consciousness is the fact that it doesn't have a firm definition in the field or beyond it. Consciously, it's not clear. Efforts to nail consciousness down to specific brain functions tend to fall flat. There are a lot of ethical questions related to the concept of machine consciousness.

According to the NYT, Lipson has his own definition of consciousness, which is the ability to imagine yourself in the future. The engineer has focused a lot of his career on building machines that can adapt to changes in environments and injuries within the mechanical body.

A machine with the ability to learn more and correct itself, but also a machine with the ability to imagine how it might be better, and evolve to suit that vision. There is a slight difference, but an important one.

It's difficult to cosign any particular one since consciousness doesn't have a set definition.

It's impossible to ignore the fact that humans like to portray everything from pets to vegetables and more. In the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, those building machines constantly project human features onto the devices that they create.

It's always worth asking if those machines actually possess the qualities that researchers like Lipson think they will one day possess, or if scientists are projecting humanity as a result of their own human urges.

The New York Times quoted Lipson as saying that the desire to create life has a lot of arrogance. Going to the moon is the ultimate challenge.

Consciousness in robots was once taboo. The last word is now. The New York Times is published by The New York Times Company.

Openai was founded to counter bad Ai and is now worth billions of dollars.