Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

In a room the size of a small kitchen, three researchers work amid a crush of computers, wiring, books and papers. At the centre of the room is what looks like the head and torso of some modern Frankenstein’s monster with the skin removed: a mass of wiring drooping off a skeletal structure, with wheels instead of legs and feet. The contraption at the computer science department at the University of Essex bears little resemblance to the sleek industrial robots familiar from films and factories; but it is one of the world’s most advanced automatons.And the researchers, led by Professor Owen Holland, are addressing a question as fundamental as any posed at the multi-billion dollar particle accelerator at Cern: can a machine be conscious?. . . [ more The Zombie engima ]

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