self-awareness
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7.3
- noun
- /ˌsɛlf əˈwɛrnəs/
- Specialized
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autoconciencia
- As far as science is concerned, self-awareness is a purely computational phenomenon.
I mean, it's AI mean it's a very special kind of self-awareness because it's not the norm.
- I mean, it's AI mean it's a very special kind of self-awareness because it's not the norm.
- So if you have a system that looks at its own state and responds to it, that's a kind of self-awareness.
Examples
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And then we got the prequel Caprica, which in many ways was seriously flawed and numbingly slow, but ultimately it raised a lot of interesting questions about the inner life of the Cylon, how it achieved self-awareness, and what that means.
Blog text (1) -
In the pseudopods of the most skillful, some of their creatures developed a rudimentary self-awareness and the ability to manipulate their own environment.
Fiction book (2000) -
Can artificial neural nets give computers consciousness—that is, an inner experience and self-awareness?
Blog text (12) -
The eldest Prime Movers had achieved self-awareness billions of cycles ago, evolving near the high-energy, matter-rich galactic core.
Fiction book (2000) -
Across two experiments, we show that the induced sense of body ownership does not vary as a function of working-memory load, suggesting that the process of integrating bodily signals for self-awareness may require minimal cognitive effort.
Academic text (2018) -
The new artificial intelligence program demonstrated impressive self-awareness by identifying its own limitations.
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Self-awareness allows robots to adjust their self-awareness based on feedback from their performance.
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Researchers are studying how self-awareness in machines can improve their decision-making capabilities.
Synonyms
157
5.6
Being awake and able to notice your body and surroundings
4
4.4
To be aware of your character, feelings, reasons, and abilities
How Self-Aware
- Specialized
1
7.3
15
4.2
7
4.6
336
3.2
2
5.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-awareness = self-aware (transparent) = self + aware + ness
Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'self-aware', producing 'the state of being self-aware'.
Etymology
Self-awareness uses the same parts: self- 'oneself', aware 'watchful', and -ness to name the state. In computing, think of a machine that watches its own parts and actions so it can notice problems and change what it does.