Light bulb moment as robot passes the human ‘self awareness’ test

A robot in New York has passed the classic “wise men puzzle” used to test whether a machine is “self-aware”. The logic puzzle involves a fictional king who is set the task of choosing a new advisor and gathers the three wisest people in the kingdom. He tells them the test will be fair to all of them and then places either a blue or white hat on the head of each and tells them that the first to stand up and announce the colour of their own hat will become his advisor.

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How the robot with a voice announced its 'self awareness’

All three were asked which one of them was able to speak. Initially, all three attempted to answer “I don’t know” but when one heard that it was the only one with a voice it spoke out. By passing logic tests like this, robots are able to build up human-like reasoning skills that will prove useful in future technology such as driverless cars. In 2014, a computer became the first to pass the famous Turing Test, which is passed if a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time during a series of five-minute keyboard-based conversations.

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