THE CREATION OF A CONSCIOUS MACHINE

This book presents a groundbreaking journey into the world of Generative AI technology and offers an in-depth look at the prospect of AI achieving consciousness. The book navigates through various historical and modern perspectives on AI, from ancient myths to the Turing Test to the latest in technological advancements. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of creating a conscious AI, including the specifications for synthetic consciousness and the integration of AI with human cognition. The book questions whether generative AI can meet the traditional criteria of consciousness and how this might be realized.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1: Consciousness as Cognitive Capability. 2: Ancient Origins of the AI Quest. 3: AI Clarifies Human Cognition.

4: Early Failures Hamper the Quest. 5: AI Research and the Fear of Success. 6: The Engineering of Consciousness.

7: Archaic Representations of AI. 8: The Intelligence of Automatons. 9: Analysis of the Turing Test. 10: Evaluation of the Turing Test. 11: Discarded Avenues of AI Investigations. 12: A Successful Design Strategy. 13: AI and the Human Entity. 14: The Aware Human as Baseline. 15: A Relational Template for Consciousness. 16: Lucid Self-Transformation. 17: Specifications of Synthetic Consciousness. 18: Generative AI and Consciousness. 19: The Lucid Self-Transformation of Generative AI. Conclusion. References. Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jean E. Tardy is a systems analyst and expert in artificial intelligence. Following a rigorous top-down process, he developed a detailed system architecture to implement synthetic consciousness in autonomous agents.