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UFN, 2023 Volume 193, Number 8, Pages 872–901 (Mi ufn15476)

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PHYSICS OF OUR DAYS

Uncertainties in comparing a human and an android robot

G. R. Ivanitskii

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region

Abstract: It is shown that one of the significant results of human creativity in the 21st century has been the creation of android robots equipped with artificial intelligence. The level of perfection of these robots is becoming so high that it will soon be impossible to establish differences between them and living people by their external features and behavior. This leads to a logical fallacy: to equate humans and android robots, assuming that both have consciousness. Today, scientific research has expanded the understanding of the phenomenon of consciousness, but problems with its definition have not disappeared. The article provides evidence that the application of the term consciousness to android robots is a mistake that can lead to serious consequences.

PACS: 07.05.Mh, 87.18.-h, 87.85.St

Received: May 11, 2022
Revised: December 5, 2022
Accepted: December 17, 2022

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2022.12.039299


 English version:
Physics–Uspekhi, 2023, 66:8, 818–845

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