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