Why robots can never be conscious

• Autores: Anil Ananthaswamy
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2969, 2014, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Ananthaswamy talks about a mathematical model suggesting that sentient machines may never exist. Over the past decade, Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have developed a mathematical framework for consciousness that has become one of the most influential theories in the field. According to their model, the ability to integrate information is a key property of consciousness. But there is a catch, argues Phil Maguire at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth. He points to a computational device called the XOR logic gate, which involves two inputs, A and B. The output of the gate is "1" if A and B are the same and a' if A and B are different. In this scenario, it is impossible to predict the output based on A or B alone--they need both. Crucially, this type of integration requires loss of information, says Maguire.