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…
Category: Consciousness
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…
Mustafa Suleyman Cites Paper To Say There’s Zero Evidence That AI Is Conscious, Paper’s Author Disagrees With His Conclusion
AI consciousness is such a tangled field that people looking at the same bit of evidence can come away with completely different conclusions….
Nick Bostrom Explains What Will Happen Once Superintelligence Is Reached
Meta and many other labs are explicitly working on creating Superintelligence, but philosopher Nick Bostrom has described what will happen once we actually…