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Will AI ever start to think by itself? If it did, how would we know, and what would it mean?
In this episode, Dr. Anil Seth and Aza discuss the science, ethics, and incentives of artificial consciousness. Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and the author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
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Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. He is the editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford University Press) and the author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller.
A free, plain text version of the Shelley’s classic of gothic literature.
A video from OpenAI demonstrating GPT4o’s remarkable ability to mimic human sentience.
The NYT op-ed from last year by Tristan, Aza, and Yuval Noah Harari outlining the AI dilemma.
Thomas Nagel’s famous essay on the nature of consciousness.
Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s essay on the simulation hypothesis.
A blog post about Anthropic’s recent discovery of the location of distinct concepts within their LLM, a major development in the field of AI interpretability.
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