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Because he thinks our consciousness is an illusion, Keith sees little value in creating it in machines. But he does expect us to make machines one day that are complex enough to be conscious.
https://t.co/oLQ0dh68dw
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Keith compares the view of consciousness as distinct from other physical processes with the discredited view that life required a vital spark. He believes there is no need to explain subjective experience beyond a complete functionalist account.
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The theory of illusionism claims that phenomenal consciousness - the subjective feeling of experience - is an illusion, and that our intuitive conception of conscious experience as inherently mysterious or non-physical is mistaken.
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Our latest guest is philosopher and writer, Professor Keith Frankish. We explore the theory of illusionism and its implications for artificial consciousness.
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An article listing all 50 recommendations about AI that Matt Clifford made to the UK government - most of which it accepted.
And it starts with "triskaidekaphobia". Bravo.
https://t.co/a4EQ89EJKE
"Arguing over who owns AGI is like arguing over who has more copies of a digital newspaper."
Stuart Russell, co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on AI.
https://t.co/spSwEnBsbZ
Christians often contend that AIs cannot have souls, so they cannot become conscious.
This seems undermined by the contention that non-human animals (which are surely conscious) only have mortal souls, and don't go to heaven.
https://t.co/dE1CpbUq6d
This:
"Two massive tectonic shifts are happening at once — President-elect Trump and MAGA are coming into power at the very moment AI companies are racing to approximate human-like or human-surpassing intelligence."
https://t.co/Cq0t2VVEdv
I Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams invented the Babel Fish, an impossible creature that you pop in your ear to act as a universal translator.
Meta claims it is almost there.
https://t.co/vziky78vAp
Goldman Sachs CEO says that 95% of an IPO prospectus can now be drafted by AI in a few minutes.
It used to take 12 human weeks.
https://t.co/P14LeL97LJ
The matrix of billionaires and their interests: Altman and Bezos are into longevity but Musk and Zuckerberg are not. Musk and Bezos share space ambitions, but not the others. Musk and Zuckerberg want to rule, but the others don't. Hard to keep up.
https://t.co/Pvd2p5mXE3
Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and NYU found that neural nets and human brains use similar ways to represent the same information. This isn't copying. It's both choosing the method that works best.
Humans and AI are more alike than we think.
https://t.co/PQTdtVbD4w