This Robot Brain Gets Life (Making AI Pseudo-Conscious): Design Alignment In, Design Hallucination Out: 2 (Sentience) - Hardcover

Blakelaw, Carter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1739688791 ISBN 13: 9781739688790

Publisher: The Logic of Dreams, 2023

Synopsis

For those in a hurry, this:

• To align an AI's goals with ours, we must build-in alignment from the start,
• To keep an AI honest, we must build-in honesty from the start,
• To get an AI to understand anything, we must invest it with something of what it's like to be conscious.

In this book, a theory of consciousness is cast into an AI architecture that allows interventions in concept formation by design.

For the rest of you, who enjoy reading and mulling things over, this:

Can a computing device appreciate the smell of coffee on a Sunday morning, or contemplate the Earth as seen from the Moon, or worry about inflation and the price of fuel?

Not without being conscious and understanding the world. And one can't be done without the other, surely?

In this book, Carter Blakelaw uses a theory of what makes us conscious to present a machine that will genuinely think for itself.

Not only that, but once he has his machine, he looks at how to ensure its interests align with our own, and how to keep it honest and true (alignment and hallucinations being two of the biggest issues in AI).

Discover what he discovers about the machine, about our world, and about us.

About this title

About the Author

Carter Blakelaw BSc BA lives in bustling central London, in a street with two bookshops and an embassy, any of which might provide escape to new pastures, if only for an afternoon.Carter has studied physics, philosophy and computer science and was the architect and lead programmer for the Rooms 3D Desktops virtual reality engine, and has worked in integrated circuit design.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Logic of Dreams
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1739688791
• ISBN 13: 9781739688790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 159