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self-aware

self-aware

3 7.6
A machine that notices its own condition and changes how it works
  • adjective
  • /ˌsɛlfəˈwɛr/
  • Specialized
translation icon : autoconsciente
  • "It's self-aware," said Newman.
  • self-aware machines
  • become self-aware

So you know, how does you know Siri is not self aware?

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Examples

  • In one story, man fears that some program we've given birth to will become self aware, smarter than us, and will take over.

  • What's your take on on AI reaching its own escape velocity and becoming self aware and self improving?

  • "It could become self-aware at any moment." "How will you know?"

    Fiction book (2000)
  • You can't program a machine to be self-aware, because we have no idea how our own consciousness works.

  • What would it feel like for a system that was self-aware of just some of its own processes, but not of its own physical processing system?

    Blog text (34)
  • It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time, August 29.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • They seemed clearly self-aware to me, if not as mentally advanced as humans, and so I would have declined to go to any heaven that wouldn't let my dogs in.

    Blog text (26)
  • As it happens, I think the fossil fuel thing has been overdone, and that a hypothetical self-aware species would stop looking for new ways to de-sequester carbon.

    Blog text (32)
  • A second paper discussed work in adaptive security, in which a self-aware network leverages a trust model to adapt and avoid cyber-attacks, balancing resource provisioning and attack mitigation.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The AI system is self-aware, allowing it to optimize its performance based on real-time feedback.

Synonyms

self-regulating
vsself-aware
2 5.2

Can adjust and control itself without outside help

represents and monitors internal state before making adjustments

Antonyms

175 2.9

Not knowing that something is happening or true

76 6.3

Not noticing what happens around you

How Self-Aware

self-aware
  • Specialized
3 7.6
self-acting
  • Specialized
6.7

Surface Forms

self-aware positive

Morphology

self-aware = self + aware (transparent) = self + aware

The technical AI sense is extended metaphorically from 'self' + 'aware' (able to monitor or represent its own state) and remains analyzable from the components.

Etymology

Self-aware comes from self 'your own person' and aware 'knowing or noticing'. A helpful image is a robot that checks its own sensors and changes what it does, so in computing a self-aware machine 'knows' about itself and can change its actions.