Robots with human consciousness will ‘eclipse humanity’ and become geniuses, expert warns

SCIENTISTS working on artificial intelligence have announced the next step forward: achieving robotic consciousness. “You want these machines to be resilient.”While he’s now able to talk about consciousness in robots without facing as many hurdles, the topic remains complex and thorny. “If we can create a machine that will have consciousness on par with a human, this will eclipse everything else we’ve done. “So eventually these machines will be able to understand what they are, and what they think,” he said. While whether or not consciousness was achieved is up for debate, the plans have been set in motion.