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Exploring Machine Consciousness
A podcast from PRISM (The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines), exploring the possibility and implications of machine consciousness. Visit www.prism-global.com for more about our work.
Episodes
6 episodes
Clara Colombatto: Perceptions of Consciousness, Intelligence, and Trust in Large Language Models
Clara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she directs the Vision and Cognition Lab. Her lab is investigating various aspects of perception and cognition, with a pa...
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Keith Frankish: Illusionism and Its Implications for Conscious AI
Keith is an Honorary Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, and an Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the University of Crete.Keith ...
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Mark Solms: Engineering Consciousness – Can Robots "Give a Damn?"
In this episode, we ask: if we wanted to construct a conscious mind from scratch, what would we need? That is the question our guest, Professor Mark Solms, addressed in the final chapter of his book The Hidden Spring - a Jour...
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Jeff Sebo: AI Sentience, Welfare and Moral Status
In this episode, we spoke to Jeff Sebo of New York University. Jeff is the author of the recently published book The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters and Why. In it, he challenges us to expand our moral concern beyon...
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Susan Schneider: Organoids, LLMs, and tests for AI consciousness
In the second episode of Exploring Machine Consciousness, we welcomed philosopher and AI expert Professor Susan Schneider to discuss consciousness, quantum physics, and the future of conscious machines.Susan introduces her “Superpsychism...
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Henry Shevlin: Anticipating an Einstein moment in the understanding of consciousness
Welcome to the first episode of Understanding Machine Consciousness. This episode is a collaboration with The London Futurists Podcast.Our guest in this episode is Henry Shevlin. Henry is the Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre f...
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