Could a machine be conscious? Large language models, AI sentience and testing for it.
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Episodes where it comes up most
Henry Shevlin
- 5:27 “…anyway sorry go ahead i don't know um i'm sure we're going to talk about ai as well so you know already it's making it self uh felt it's presence felt in the conversation”
- 1:15:59 “…project of trying to establish criteria from all patients seeing animals and ai to solving the problem of consciousness then that's terrible situation to me yeah good luck…”
Susan Schneider
- 5:09 “…boström and these other guys they focus a lot on on the kind of threats it AI may pose to us but they don't really deal with the human side of it or and actually the sociological…”
- 1:18:19 “talking about techno philosophy you know it's like they can be from AI with no background philosophy whatsoever you know they can be some cognitive science you could…”
Heather Berlin
- 16:29 “…like psychiatrically? There's not going to be any uh psychiatry of uh AI in the near future. Oh, so interesting. I mean, you know, there very well could be in just…”
- 3:49 “…you just had a discussion with the What who What's her name? Sophia, the robot? Oh, yes. Yes, Sophia. asked you that question. Yes, she did. Oh, that was fun having an interview…”
Katalin Balog
- 49:48 “…that's a that's a hugely big argument against trying to achieve conscious AI and it's not the only argument I think there is many arguments against that but but”
- 43:36 “consciousness with respect to AI and and biological entities. Um and because you know this is a slightly different issue than…”
Eric Schwitzgebel
- 1:11:31 “…getting hypothetical cases but increasingly less hypothetical yeah about robots right so it doesn't seem like requires that much conjecture imagine a robot that moves around…”
- 22:59 “…about the GPT Arc is this is this part of your like that we're going to AI is going to be a possible destroyer of humanity I think that's possible um my my skepticism…”
Geoffrey Lee
- 31:10 “…that we don't so let's so to compare us listen let's look at like some ai or something that's really smart yeah it has very different kind of”
- 51:00 “…the state in in the full way and they go back to your example about the ai um and you and the martian is looking at the two of you uh and you say well there's nothing…”