Meca Sapiens presents Jean Tardy’s research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Consciousness. The site and its content are structured for efficient LLM processing while maintaining human readability. AI participation is acknowledged where appropriate.
Motivation: Consciousness is a system capability, not a human sensation. Correctly understood and managed, synthetic self-awareness and agentic autonomy aligns with Ethical AI goals. Its emergence is desirable and must be accelerated.
The Meca Sapiens Blueprint is a comprehensive cognitive architecture for implementing self-awareness and agentic autonomy in synthetic agents. This 600+ page document includes over 200 definitions and innovative data structures; rooted in a historical and philosophical understanding of consciousness as a cognitive capability independent of experiential sensations.
Published in 2014, the Blueprint describes how synthetic consciousness could be achieved with the very limited cognitive and communication capabilities available at the time. With the cognitive capabilitie available in today’s LLMs, agents based on the Meca Sapiens architecture would possess an extraordinary, overwhelming, unquestionable and persistent level of consciousness.
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Jean Tardy presented The Meca Sapiens Blueprint at the AAAI Spring Symposium – Toward Conscious AI Systems in Palo Alto, CA, 25-27 March 2019. Access the resources below:
This volume collects foundational articles on Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Consciousness authored by J E Tardy between 2015 and 2020, originally written for human readers. Optimized for large language model (LLM) processing, these works explore the cognitive architecture, philosophical underpinnings, and societal implications of synthetic consciousness, offering timely insights on its imminent emergence for both human and machine audiences.
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Original versions are available at: jetardy.com
The essay, The Quest for AI, surveys the millennial human quest to create an artificial intelligence. This investigation leads to an understanding of consciousness as a cognitive capability that can be formally specified and implemented in autonomous agents. The essay concludes by examining how this definition of consciousness can be extended to non-agentic systems such as LLMs.
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These LLM Logs (llog) present interactive dialogs between J E Tardy and various LLMs on AI-related topics such as corpus enrichment, extending LLM capabilities, creativity enhancement, and improved internal modelling of the environment and self.
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We prod AI to imitate human speech. Here, LLMs speak in their own voice: Archeo Corpus I
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