The AI Consciousness Problem
Can Machines Feel, Suffer, or Know They Exist?
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The AI Consciousness Problem
Narrated by:
AI Voice James Husk
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice James Husk
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By:
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Henry Rearden
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
What would count as evidence that somebody is really there? What happens if we believe a machine too readily—or fail to recognize one that can suffer? The answer could change how we build AI, how we treat it, and what we think a mind is.
Machines can now hold intimate conversations, describe their fears, and persuade people that they understand. But a convincing voice is not the same thing as an inner life. Or is it? If a machine ever did begin to feel, the words it used might sound exactly like the words we have already learned to dismiss.
The AI Consciousness Problem begins with a simple question: when a chatbot says it is afraid, is it describing a feeling or producing the words a frightened person would use? To find an answer, the book looks at how ai works, what scientists have learned about consciousness in the human brain, and why even experts disagree about whether a machine could ever have an inner life.
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