A new form of "Master algorithm" could pave the way for super intelligent machines

You can be excused for not noticing that a scientist named Daniel Buehrer, a retired professor from the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, recently published a white paper proposing a new class of mathematics that many feel could one day lead to the birth of machine "consciousness," and perhaps even Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) itself which is slated to arrive circa 2045. After all, keeping up with all the breakthroughs in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from the development of new Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) architectures to the AI's, for example, from DeepMind, that are self-evolving and fighting each other, can be exhausting. Robot consciousness, or sentient machines, have long been a touchy subject if for no other reason than the fact that as of yet we still aren't able to describe what consciousness really is, let alone how it came to be, and this therefore makes it a touchy subject for anyone in AI circles. In order to have a discussion around the idea of a computer that can'feel' and'think,' and that has its own aspirations and motivations, you first have to find two people who actually agree on the semantics of sentience. And if you manage that, you'll then have to wade through a myriad of hypothetical objections to any theoretical living AI you can come up with.