We have defined the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) for the purpose of investigating a Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) approach to consciousness. For this, we have hewn to the TCS demand for simplicity and understandability. The CTM is consequently and intentionally a simple machine. It is not a model of the brain, though its design has greatly benefited - and continues to benefit - from neuroscience and psychology. The CTM is a model of and for consciousness. Although it is developed to understand consciousness, the CTM offers a thoughtful and novel guide to the creation of an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). For example, the CTM has an enormous number of powerful processors, some with specialized expertise, others unspecialized but poised to develop an expertise. For whatever problem must be dealt with, the CTM has an excellent way to utilize those processors that have the required knowledge, ability, and time to work on the problem, even if it is not aware of which ones these may be.
翻译:我们定义了意识图灵机(CTM),以研究关于意识的理论计算机科学方法。为此,我们坚持 TCS 对简单和易于理解性的要求。CTM 因此故意成为一台简单的机器。它不是大脑的模型,但其设计极大地受益于神经科学和心理学。CTM 是意识的模型。尽管它是为了理解意识而开发的,但 CTM 提供了一个深思熟虑而新颖的指导,用于创建人工通用智能(AGI)。例如,CTM 有数量巨大而强大的处理器,其中一些具有专门的专业知识,其他的没有专业知识,但准备发展出专业知识。对于必须处理的任何问题,CTM 都有一种极好的方法,可以利用那些具有所需知识,能力和时间来解决问题的处理器,即使它不知道这些处理器可能是哪些。