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August 26, 2003

Grant for Consciousness

According to an article by Alok Jha in The Guardian, "Scientists have been given the biggest ever grant to build a 'conscious robot'. " The grant is for 500,000 pounds and it repeats the most persistent — because it's metaphysical — error (IMHO) in AI: thinking that consciousness consists of an internal representation of the world. In this case: "Mr Holland's idea is that a conscious robot would have to build up internal models - one for the 'self' of the robot and another for the world around it. "

Thanks to Gred Linuxman Cavanagh for the link

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Posted by D. Weinberger at August 26, 2003 10:50 AM

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