BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!

BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!

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BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!
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Jaan Aru on why AI is nowhere near having consciousness, and how neuroscience might enlighten how consciousness comes about.

BI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious

BI 230 Michael Shadlen: How Thoughts Become Conscious

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Michael is with me today to discuss his account of what makes a thought conscious, in the hopes to inspire neuroscience research to eventually tackle the hard problem of consciousness – why and how we have subjective experience.

BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning

BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning

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Tomaso believes we are in-between building and understanding useful AI That is, we are in between engineering and theory. He likens this stage to the period after Volta invented the battery and Maxwell developed the equations of electromagnetism. Tomaso has worked for decades on the theory and principles behind intelligence and learning in brains and machines.

BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness

BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness

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Alex Maier on why consciousness science needs mathematical formalization – in particular, a structuralist approach like that in integrated information theory