Joscha Bach Λ Ben Goertzel: Conscious Ai, LLMs, AGI
Joscha Bach meets with Ben Goertzel to discuss cognitive architectures, AGI, and conscious computers in another theolocution on TOE.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
- SingularityNET (Ben's Decentralized Ai company):
- Mindfest Playlist on TOE (Ai and Consciousness):
TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00:00 Introduction
- 00:02:23 Computation vs Awareness
- 00:06:11 The paradox of language and self-contradiction
- 00:10:05 The metaphysical categories of Charles Peirce
- 00:13:00 Zen Buddhism's category of zero
- 00:14:18 Carl Jung's interpretation of four
- 00:21:22 Language as "representation"
- 00:28:48 Computational reality vs AGI
- 00:33:06 Consciousness in particles
- 00:44:18 Anesthesia and consciousness: Joscha's personal perspective
- 00:54:36 Levels of consciousness levels (panpsychism vs functionalism)
- 00:56:23 Deep neural nets & LLMs as steps backward from AGI?
- 01:05:04 Emergent properties of LLMs
- 01:12:26 Turing-completeness and its implications
- 01:15:08 OpenAI's bold claims challenged
- 01:24:24 Future of AGI
- 01:31:58 Intelligent species after human extinction
- 01:36:33 Emergence of a cosmic mind
- 01:43:56 The timeline to AGI development
- 01:52:16 The physics of immortality
- 01:54:00 Critique of Integrated Information Theory (pseudoscience?)