IS AI CONSCIOUS? — Digital Version

IS AI CONSCIOUS? — Digital Edition

Can artificial intelligence actually be conscious — or are we simply mistaking convincing behaviour for a mind?

In IS AI CONSCIOUS?, Jake Land explores one of the most provocative questions of the modern technological age: whether advanced artificial intelligence may possess, or eventually develop, something that deserves to be called consciousness.

The book examines the difference between intelligence and awareness, between processing information and actually experiencing it, and asks whether human beings may be too quick either to dismiss machine consciousness or to imagine it where none exists.

Along the way, it challenges familiar assumptions about the mind, the brain and what makes human consciousness special. If consciousness arises from physical processes in the human brain, could sufficiently advanced artificial systems one day produce something comparable? And if not, what exactly is missing?

IS AI CONSCIOUS? is written for readers interested in artificial intelligence, philosophy, consciousness and the future relationship between humans and increasingly capable machines.

Rather than pretending the question has already been settled, this book invites readers to examine the arguments, question the experts and decide for themselves.

Is Richard Dawkins wrong?

By Jake Land

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