1. 10:37 27th Sep 2012

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    Italian Roboticist Wants to Study Consciousness By Teaching Japanese Robots to Sing Jazz Intelligence is often defined as the ability to find connections between existing entities - understanding that a key goes in a lock, for instance. But Chella suggests that a conscious organism should be able to go a step further and introduce novel connections - between, say, musical phrases - that result in the creation of something new. That, in essence, is the idea behind improvisation… Chella wants to replicate these states in a machine. “Consciousness could be linked to these moments of combination,” he says. “[This work] raises interesting questions about the link between consciousness and music making,” says musician and computer scientist Philippe Pasquier… But he is sceptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body, citing examples of AI composers that exist only in software. (via Jazz-singing robot could shed light on consciousness - tech - 27 September 2012 - New Scientist)

    Italian Roboticist Wants to Study Consciousness By Teaching Japanese Robots to Sing Jazz

    Intelligence is often defined as the ability to find connections between existing entities - understanding that a key goes in a lock, for instance.

    But Chella suggests that a conscious organism should be able to go a step further and introduce novel connections - between, say, musical phrases - that result in the creation of something new. That, in essence, is the idea behind improvisation…

    Chella wants to replicate these states in a machine. “Consciousness could be linked to these moments of combination,” he says.

    “[This work] raises interesting questions about the link between consciousness and music making,” says musician and computer scientist Philippe Pasquier… But he is sceptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body, citing examples of AI composers that exist only in software.

    (via Jazz-singing robot could shed light on consciousness - tech - 27 September 2012 - New Scientist)

     
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