“Jacques Pitrat’s new book Artificial Ethics: Moral Conscience, Awareness and Consciencousness will be of interest to anyone who likes robotics, software, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and science fiction.

“J.Pitrat claims that strong AI is an incredibly difficult, but still possible goal and task. He contends that without a conscious, reflective, meta-knowledge based system, AI would be virtually impossible to create. Only an AI system could build a true Star Trek style AI.

“This book gives some interesting and original insights about how a big software system might attain consciousness, and continuously improve itself by experimentation and introspection.”