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Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness

In this episode, Chris outlines his research programme and argues that we should take the possibility of artificial consciousness seriously whilst remaining humble about our current understanding. His research is based on three convictions: th…

Cameron Berg: Why Do LLMs Report Subjective Experience?

Cameron Berg is Research Director at AE Studio, where he leads research exploring markers for subjective experience in machine learning systems. With a background in cognitive science from Yale and previous work at Meta AI, Cameron investigates t…

Experts judge Digital Minds to be possible in principle, with a median probability estimate of 90%

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Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit to launch startup, FT reports

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Keith Frankish: Illusionism and Its Implications for Conscious AI

Keith believes that LLMs are a red herring as they have an impoverished world view, however, he doesn't rule out machine consicousness. Saying it is likely that we will have to extend moral concern to AIs once we have convincing, self-sustaining, w…

The Illusion of Consciousness in AI Companionship

"While simulating consciousness in AI companions is threatening to become a normalised practice, the recent spike in scrutiny suggests that resistance to this design choice may be growing – and rightly so. If their powers are harnessed appro…

Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister

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