Stories about facets of Artificial Consciousness
The Meca Sapiens architecture describes various processes by which a system can carry out an intentional modification of its pre-programmed objectives. This humorous story describes one of these.
The administration at Guantanamo recently purchased a VLAD-64. The VLAD is an Automatic Information Extractor (AIE! informally); a self-contained AI device that waterboards detainees while asking questions and analyzing their responses.
Continue reading “VLAD-64”The following story describes relational bonding and consciousness from an optimization control perspective and the confusion this can cause.
Last year, the remote fishing village of Bloggin’s Cove received a brand new MEDICA-55. The MEDICA is a self-aware autonomous medical station. It can diagnose patients, prescribe and distribute medication and perform minor surgical interventions.
Continue reading “MEDICA-55”The following story is taken from the Meca Sapiens Blueprint illustrates the differences between a purpose, a primary purpose and urges that animate the behaviour of a synthetic entity.
Some argue that the term “computational intelligence” is a misnomer because computing machines can only process data and cannot process information that has semantic meaning. This is a mistake.
Data becomes information when it satisfies a need. Any system, organic or synthetic, that has no needs will process only data. Give that system needs and the same data it processes becomes information for it.
What transforms data into information are the needs of a system, not its construction.
Here is a story about this:
Continue reading “The Data in the Carrots”
The story of Ulysses and the Sirens, told by Homer in the Odyssey more than two thousand years ago, describes consciousness as an observable capability, not an internal sensation. That understanding is also the basis of the Meca Sapiens Architecture.
Continue reading “Ulysses and the Sirens”