The Creation of a Conscious Machine: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition

  • 3h 20m
  • Jean E. Tardy
  • Mercury Learning
  • 2024

This book presents a groundbreaking journey into the world of Generative AI technology and offers an in-depth look at the prospect of AI achieving consciousness. The book navigates through various historical and modern perspectives on AI, from ancient myths to the Turing Test to the latest in technological advancements. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of creating a conscious AI, including the specifications for synthetic consciousness and the integration of AI with human cognition. The book questions whether generative AI can meet the traditional criteria of consciousness and how this might be realized.

FEATURES:

    Specifies the design choices and implementation strategies that must be followed to successfully build machines that are conscious

    Explores the entire spectrum of AI development, from ancient origins to the potential future of conscious machines

    Offers a critical examination of the Turing Test, its variations, and its relevance to modern AI

    Provides insights into the potential paths and challenges in achieving synthetic consciousness in AI

About the Author

Jean E. Tardy is a systems analyst and expert in artificial intelligence. Following a rigorous top-down process, he developed a detailed system architecture to implement synthetic consciousness in autonomous agents.

In this Book

  • Consciousness as Cognitive Capability
  • Ancient Origins of the AI Quest
  • AI Clarifies Human Cognition
  • Early Failures Hamper the Quest
  • AI Research and the Fear of Success
  • The Engineering of Consciousness
  • Archaic Representations of AI
  • The Intelligence of Automatons
  • Analysis of the Turing Test
  • Evaluation of the Turing Test
  • Discarded Avenues of AI Investigations
  • A Successful Design Strategy
  • AI and the Human Entity
  • The Aware Human as Baseline
  • A Relational Template for Consciousness
  • Lucid Self-Transformation
  • Specifications of Synthetic Consciousness
  • Generative AI and Consciousness
  • The Lucid Self-Transformation of Generative AI
  • Conclusion
  • References
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