In order to better understand our human nature, we must attempt to build a robot capable of robust subjective experiences

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Living Machines 2025 Workshop, Tuesday 15th July Biomimetic Cognitive Architectures for Living Machines Organisers: Tony Prescott, Paul Verschure Abstract The goal of this workshop is to better und...

University of Plymouth research: Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS). Events and seminar series

Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.

Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.

Participatory design places a strong emphasis on human agency, user perspectives and democratic ideals of inclusivity and empowerment, and is therefore often associated with humanist principles and va...

Please join us on Thursday 23rd January for a talk from Professor Tony Prescott on the themes of his recently launched book The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence. Blurb: What is Artificial Intel...

There is increasing interest in social robots as assistive technologies to support a wide range of potential user groups.  Nevertheless, the widespread use of robots has been challenged in ter…

Could we create a sense of self for a robot and how would that help advance our understanding of the human self? This post summarises a Science Robotics review article I authored with Kai Vogeley a…

Using AI technology from the University of Sheffield – which incorporates thermal and optical imaging – the self-coordinated drones can automatically detect, investigate and supress fires

Tony Prescott's 'The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence', reviewed by Zilong Zhong.

Professor of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield

Robots can be used to study and understand the sense of self as a fundamental phenomenon of human nature.

YouTube video by Tony J Prescott

This is a relatively short (35,000 words) single author book, first published in July 2024, and intended for the general reader interested in artificial intelligence and its similarities to human i…