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01/06/2023
‘Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo
Now it is the last word
Dr. Hod Lipson, a mechanical engineer who directs the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, has shaped most of his career around what some people in his industry have called the "c-word."
On a sunny morning this past October, the Israeli-born roboticist sat behind a table in his lab and explained himself.
“This topic was taboo,” he said, a grin exposing a slight gap between his front teeth. “We were almost forbidden from talking about it — ‘Don’t talk about the c-word; you won’t get tenure’ — so in the beginning I had to disguise it, like it was something else.”
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