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The Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
A philosopher discusses the concept of consciousness when referring to artificial intelligence and how it is a difficult term to define. The development of AI and consciousness may have significant consequences in our cultural and intellectual evolution.
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The speaker talks about the advantages of layering automation and mentions how it's interesting to think about Alan Turing's computational ideas for Encyclopaedia Britannica.
2:53:37 - 2:55:40 (02:03)
Summary
The speaker talks about the advantages of layering automation and mentions how it's interesting to think about Alan Turing's computational ideas for Encyclopaedia Britannica.
ChapterThe Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
Episode#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The levels of impressive intelligence in computation that are able to do general things useful to humans may be as low as 1-2%, according to Stephen Wolfram.
2:55:41 - 2:57:39 (01:57)
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The levels of impressive intelligence in computation that are able to do general things useful to humans may be as low as 1-2%, according to Stephen Wolfram. Cellular automata and Rule 30 have been examples of this humbling fact.
ChapterThe Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
Episode#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The guests discuss the challenges of defining subjective experience and the emergence of consciousness from computation.
2:57:39 - 3:00:32 (02:53)
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The guests discuss the challenges of defining subjective experience and the emergence of consciousness from computation.
ChapterThe Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
Episode#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The bad feature of computation is that it takes an unbelievably long time for things to happen on a human time scale.
3:00:32 - 3:02:53 (02:20)
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The bad feature of computation is that it takes an unbelievably long time for things to happen on a human time scale. The idea of computation is a big paradigm and computational irreducibility will be important, making it an inexorable phenomenon.