Am More Optimistic About Our Ability To Control Superintelligence Than 2 Years Ago: Yoshua Bengio
After Geoffrey Hinton had said that he believed that AIs could be designed to be non-threatening towards humans by instilling a maternal instinct…
Category: Consciousness
Google Holds Conference On AI Consciousness With Scientists And Researchers
The world’s top AI companies aren’t only racing to build the best models, but they seem to be actively pursuing questions of whether…
Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis Seem To Agree With Spinoza’s Views On Nature Of God
Even as the world’s leading AI experts race to build all-powerful AI systems, it is interesting to understand how they view the world…
Geoffrey Hinton Explains How A Chatbot Could Have A “Subjective Experience”
Geoffrey Hinton famously has a physicalist view of consciousness, and he’s expanded on how he believes a chatbot could have a subjective experience…
LLMs Have Debunked The Idea That Consciousness Is Something Magical That Exists Outside Physics: Stephen Wolfram
While the rise of LLMs and AI has convinced some people that consciousness isn’t something that can be created with computers, it’s convinced…
Geoffrey Hinton Shares Thought Experiment That Shows How AI Could Be Conscious
There’s much debate on whether AI systems are conscious, but one of the godfathers of AI has a persuasive argument on why he…
Artificial Intelligence Might Be The Last Step In A 2000-Year Intellectual Project: Joscha Bach
For over two millennia, humans have grappled with one of the most profound questions imaginable: What is the mind? German cognitive scientist and…
Physicalism Is A “Dead Man Walking”: Bernardo Kastrup
The dominant worldview that has shaped science, technology, and business for centuries is on the verge of collapse. This provocative claim comes from…
No Fundamental Theory Prevents Humans From Creating Consciousness: David Deutsch
Many philosophers seem to regard consciousness as lying outside the laws of physics, but top physicists seem to disagree. David Deutsch, the Oxford…