AUTHOR=Krauss Patrick , Maier Andreas TITLE=Will We Ever Have Conscious Machines? JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience VOLUME=14 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncom.2020.556544 DOI=10.3389/fncom.2020.556544 ISSN=1662-5188 ABSTRACT=

The question of whether artificial beings or machines could become self-aware or conscious has been a philosophical question for centuries. The main problem is that self-awareness cannot be observed from an outside perspective and the distinction of being really self-aware or merely a clever imitation cannot be answered without access to knowledge about the mechanism's inner workings. We investigate common machine learning approaches with respect to their potential ability to become self-aware. We realize that many important algorithmic steps toward machines with a core consciousness have already been taken.