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#152 Why AI Will Never Be Conscious

#152 Why AI Will Never Be Conscious

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Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code alexoconnor at https://huel.com/alexoconnor (Minimum $50 purchase).For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack.Anil Seth is a British neuroscientist and professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. A proponent of materialist explanations of consciousness, he is currently amongst the most cited scholars on the topics of neuroscience and cognitive science globally.Read Anil's essay, "The Mythology of Conscious AI". - TIMESTAMPS


00:00 - The Difference Between Intelligence and Consciousness

03:55 - What’s Stopping the Replication of Consciousness in AI?

17:01 - Can You Separate What the Brain Is From What It Does?

22:20 - Is Conscious Experience Just Predictions From the Brain?

26:48 - Why Do We Project Consciousness Onto LLMs?

37:27 - Can Consciousness Exist Without a Body?

42:25 - Why We Liken the Brain to a Computer

52:11 - Is There An Evolutionary Reason For Consciousness?

56:29 - Studying Unconscious Perception?

1:01:21 - Is Consciousness Unified? Split-Brain Patients

1:15:10 - Attention and Consciousness

1:19:04 - What Would a Conscious Chatbot Even Look Like?

1:25:13 - Consciousness as a Controlled Hallucination

1:34:19 - Do Scientists Actually Study “Consciousness” At All?


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