Artificial beings : the conscience of a conscious machine / / Jacques Pitrat

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817473403321
• Autore: Pitrat J (Jacques)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : ISTE; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-16548-8; 9786612165481; 0-470-61179-0; 0-470-60805-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: ISTE ; ; v.128
• Disciplina: 006.3
• Soggetti: Artificial intelligence - Moral and ethical aspects; Conscience; Consciousness
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Artificial Beings; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the Terminology; Chapter 1. Presenting the Actors; 1.1. The book; 1.2. Human and artificial beings; 1.3. The computer; 1.4. The author; 1.5. CAIA, an artificial AI scientist; 1.6. The research domains of CAIA; 1.7. Further reading; Chapter 2. Consciousness and Conscience; 2.1. Several meanings of "consciousness"; 2.2. Extending the meaning of "conscience" for artificial beings; 2.3. Why is it useful to build conscious artificial beings with a conscience?; 2.4. Towards an artificial cognition; 2.4.1. A new kind of consciousness; 2.4.2. A new kind of conscienceChapter 3. What Does "Itself" Mean for an Artificial Being?; 3.1. Various versions of an individual; 3.1.1. The concept of an individual for human beings; 3.1.2. The boundaries of an artificial being; 3.1.3. Passive and active versions of an individual; 3.1.4. Reflexivity; 3.2. Variants of an individual; 3.2.1. An individual changes with time; 3.2.2. Learning by comparing two variants; 3.2.3. Genetic algorithms; 3.2.4. The bootstrap; 3.3. Cloning artificial beings; 3.3.1. Cloning an artificial being is easy; 3.3.2. Cloning artificial beings ; is useful; 3.4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde3.5. The Society of Mind; 3.6. More on the subject; Chapter 4. Some Aspects of Consciousness; 4.1. Six aspects of consciousness; 4.1.1. One is in an active state; 4.1.2. One knows what one is doing; 4.1.3. One examines his/its internal state; 4.1.4. One knows what one knows; 4.1.5. One has a model of oneself; 4.1.6. One knows that one is different from the other individuals; 4.2. Some limits of consciousness; 4.2.1. Some limits of consciousness for man; 4.2.2. Some limits of consciousness for artificial beings; Chapter 5. Why is Auto-observation Useful?; 5.1. Auto-observation while carrying out a task5.1.1. To guide toward the solution; 5.1.2. To avoid dangerous situations; 5.1.3. To detect mistakes; 5.1.4. To find where one has been clumsy; 5.1.5. To generate a trace; 5.2. Auto-observation after the completion of a task; 5.2.1. Creation of an explanation; 5.2.2. Using an explanation; 5.2.3. Finding anomalies; Chapter 6. How to Observe Oneself; 6.1. Interpreting; 6.2. Adding supplementary orders; 6.3. Using timed interruptions; 6.4. Using the interruptions made by the operating system; 6.5. Knowing its own state; 6.6. Examining its own knowledge6.7. The agents of the Society of Mind; 6.8. The attention; 6.9. What is "I"; Chapter 7. The Conscience; 7.1. The conscience of human beings; 7.2. The conscience of an artificial being; 7.3. Laws for artificial beings; 7.3.1. Asimov's laws of robotics; 7.3.1. How can moral laws be implemented?; 7.3.3. The present situation; Chapter 8. Implementing a Conscience; 8.1. Why is a conscience helpful?; 8.1.1. The conscience helps to solve problems; 8.1.2. The conscience helps to manage its life; 8.1.3. Two ways to define moral knowledge; 8.1.4. Who benefits from the conscience of an artificial being?
• Sommario/riassunto: This book demonstrates that not only is it possible to create entities with both consciousness and conscience, but that those entities demonstrate them in ways different from our own, thereby showing a new kind of consciousness.