Tag Archives: Awareness

Artificial Intelligence keeps making progress thanks to broader training sets and to better use of those sets (algorithms). This leads to translation from one language to another that is ever more accurate, and to interactions with humans that is ever more undistinguishable from a human to human interaction. This is …

I am working with Derrick de Kerckhove to finalise a book on the evolution leading to the merging of the physical space and the digital one, a topic that I am addressing from a technology point of view whilst Derrick looks into the societal and ethical aspects. I came up …

I pointed out in the previous blog that a true self replication shall involve both top down and bottom up processes. Researchers are taking this system-wide approach in (nanotech) molecular manufacturing, as shown in the diagram. The industrial issue with nanotech and molecular manufacturing is that the yield of the …

I have been reading over the last 9 months the reports on the crashes, first of the Lion Air  and then of the Ethiopian, 737MAX. In both cases the automated system (MCAS) Boeing developed to correct the potential danger of stall played a role in the fatal outcome. It is …

Awareness You can’t be smart without understanding the context you operate in and the very first step is becoming aware of what is going on. You need to sense your environment. The vision of a world that can be understood by scattering sensors all around was articulated by HP in …

Philosophers have been debating about awareness, consciousness and for long time have asserted that only us, humans, are conscious (whilst all living things need to have some sort of awareness to keep living…). Today we know that it is not just us, many, actually most, animal species have some degree …

Awareness Technologies and sentiment analyses Autonomous systems need to have a situational awareness, that is they need to be aware of their surrounding and aware of their possible evolution. An autonomous vehicle needs to identify the objects in its surrounding, understand their characteristics: a bench on a sidewalk and a …

So far the relation human(s) artefacts has taken the centre stage in this series of posts on Emergent Beings, and indeed “symbioses” involves living beings. This meaning has been extended in the previous discussion to include relations between living being (with a focus on humans) and artefacts. This makes sense …