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Revision as of 06:25, 8 March 2004 by Psb777 (talk | contribs) (The term AC was not first used by Prof Aleksander. His claim is also controversial.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)An artificial consciousness (AC) is an artificial system capable of achieving all known objectively observable abilities of consciousness including the ability to predict the external events in every possible environment when it is possible to predict. This field of study includes research aiming to create and study such systems in order to understand corresponding natural mechanisms.
Professor Igor Aleksander of Imperial College, London, who in his book Impossible Minds (IC Press 1996) stated that the principles for creating a conscious machine already existed but that it would take forty years to train a machine to understand language.
This is a controversial statement given that artificial consciousness is thought by most informed observers to require the existence of Strong AI, the possibility of which is denied by some.