About
There is no technology, no development more urgent, necessary and inevitable than sentient machines.
No previous technological breakthrough compares: sentient machines will amount to no less than the next evolutionary step for humanity. In time – sooner than you may think – they will lead us to mechanization of our bodies, immortality, and the conquest of the Solar System.
The Attentron project is the work of Karl Dolenc, a British-Slovene web developer and Python programmer living in Berlin, Germany. Inspiration for the project may be traced back to the years 2006-2014, a period spent investigating questions of the origin of life, the nature of the mind, and related subjects.
By September 2018 my ideas were sufficiently developed to start the project by registering this domain and working on the conceptual design. Enough of the design was completed by March 2019 for programming to begin during a month of spare time.
Another month of coding followed in April 2019, in the framework of a client project where the early Attentron visual system was deployed in paper corner detection in often sub-optimal photos of foot outlines. Other tools could have been used for this task, but the Attentron component that was deployed proved the viability of the approach taken. Attentron will succeed, and that is now a matter of “when” rather than “if”.
Attentrons will have application in every field of human endeavour. The only negative about them is that they will cause menial, repetitive jobs to disappear. Given the great economic expansion that Attentrons will bring, however, even that can be seen as a positive. The positive transformational potential of Attentrons cannot be overstated. Attentrons are as inevitable and necessary now as fire, the wheel, steam power, combustion engine, electricity, and the transistor were in their times.