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Will artificial intelligence become conscious?

  • Written by Subhash Kak, Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University
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Forget about today’s modest incremental advances in artificial intelligence, such as the increasing abilities of cars to drive themselves. Waiting in the wings might be a groundbreaking development: a machine that is aware of itself and its surroundings, and that...

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