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The Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
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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.
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Automation
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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.

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The Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
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#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
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Lex 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.
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Computation Intelligence
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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.

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The Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
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#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
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Lex Fridman Podcast
The guests discuss the challenges of defining subjective experience and the emergence of consciousness from computation.
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consciousness
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The guests discuss the challenges of defining subjective experience and the emergence of consciousness from computation.

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The Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
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#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
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Lex Fridman Podcast
The bad feature of computation is that it takes an unbelievably long time for things to happen on a human time scale.
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Computation
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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.

Chapter
The Definition of Consciousness in AI Development
Episode
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast