Can Collective Behavior of AI Agents Create Consciousness?
Tharindra Galahena
The collective behavior is a common type of behavior among humans as well as animals. It is defined in Dictionary.com as,
“The spontaneous, unstructured, and temporary behavior of a group of people in response to the same event, situation, etc.”
But for this article, we only consider the behavior of a set of machines or AI agents which behave individually according to their inputs and their internal factors and rules. These inputs can come from the environment which they are part of as well as from their fellow agents. Also for this article both structured and unstructured behaviors are being considered.
Collective behavior in machines isn’t a new idea. Swarm intelligence which is introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, study the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized, natural or artificial systems. And this concept mostly used in the field of artificial intelligence.
These kind of studies is mostly focused on intelligence. But when it comes to consciousness, it is not that clear. The purpose of this article is to see whether this structured or unstructured collective behavior of AI agents can produce consciousness.
Complete Article at, http://tharindra-galahena.tumblr.com/post/91062789126/can-collective-behavior-of-ai-agents-create
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