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Today, I discussed whether today's large neural networks might be slightly conscious, with

DigitalFUTURES DOCTORAL CONSORTIUMAI, NEUROSCIENCE + ARCHITECTURE Joscha Bach, Synthetic Intelligence 13 February 2022, 10.00 am EST; 4.00 pm CET; 11.00 pm C...

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1/ To be fair, per the discussion of whether AlphaGo displayed creativity, imho it did. Agreed, it’s in the ‘narrow’ definition most humans use for the word.

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I think that a relatively vague term as 'creativity' can only do so much work. I don't think that we can learn very much if we try to classify search algorithms over complex domains as 'creative' or 'uncreative'.

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I have a question. When explaining simulation and simulacrum, you mention a 3D computer game as a simulation example and a movie as a simulacrum example. My question is: would a 3D computer generated movie qualify as a simulation or simulacrum? Or somewhere in between?

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The main question is to which degree a model (such as a 3D movie) allows intervention, i.e. different trajectories, and how well the causal structure of this model matches the domain. Some 3D movies can simulate different camera perspectives, but not different story developments.

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Hopefully people won't force definitions of consciousness as being exclusive to mammals:

today.ucsd.edu

Flies Possess More Sophisticated Cognitive Abilities than Previously Known

Common flies feature more advanced cognitive abilities than previously believed. Using a custom-built immersive virtual reality arena, neurogenetics and real-time brain activity imaging, researchers...

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I am open to the possibility of insect consciousness, but operand conditioning with attention is not consciousness yet

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Exciting. My thread on the topic may be interesting, since this is exactly what we research @SentiencInst:

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Feb 13, 2022

I'm glad to see leading voices in AI like @sama, @ylecun, and @ilyasut ponder the question of artificial consciousness. We research this @SentienceInst because it's one of the most important questions for the long-term future. I'd like to introduce the topic in a brief thread 1/n

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(here an excercise u can use 2 conceptually verify "slightly conscious": try come up with an example/define the opposite)

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Very informative & thought provoking. I totally agree that you should write it down, may be in the form of lecture notes, if it saves some of your time.

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Continually amazing! Your understanding of art is more incisive than that of most people in the art world. I would just add that although AI art is merely pastiche, so much of what we pass off as human art is also that.