#22 – Machine Minds with Dr. Matt McCormick
In Algo Podcast Episode 22, Dr. Matt McCormick and Amjad Hussain discuss Machine Minds.
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0:00 Episode Preview
0:24 Introduction
3:14 Philosophy Jokes
4:40 Conscious Machines from a Philosophy Perspective
5:26 How much of what we learn is from experience?
8:55 Shift in modern computer science to parallel distributed processing
10:50 Self Driving Cars & Theory of Mind
14:32 Minds emerge at the complex systems level
15:41 Connectome
17:26 Artificial Neural Networks
19:32 Training Blank Networks vs. A Priori Structuring
20:58 Frostbite Challenge
23:34 Humans bringing more to the table when they have world encounters
24:52 Board Games & Monte Carlo Research
29:19 A priori knowledge
32:15 Early Infant Milestones
35:08 Evolution & how babies learn
38:41 Evolution & highly organized design of human bodies
43:49 A priori vs. a posteriori
44:58 Innate Mind Frameworks
47:00 AI struggles without intuitive physics
48:34 Language of Thought
55:22 Philosophy of AI
56:04 Secret key to Conscious AI
59:23 Subverbal
1:02:44 Robots with facial expressions
1:07:43 R2-D2
1:08:57 C2: Modeling minds for humans
1:11:08 The Intentional Stance
1:15:51 Human Mind Map
1:17:17 AI Mind Map
1:18:48 AI Medical Research
1:23:22 Why do some scientists think we are living in a simulation?
1:28:45 How to use AI to resemble human capabilities
1:30:31 AI systems are too simple to have feelings
1:37:51 Power switch of consciousness
1:40:12 You need to be alive to have a subjective experience
1:43:33 Consciousness at neural systems level
1:47:28 Subjective phenomenal experiences
1:49:35 Turing tests
1:53:27 Humans discounting AI capabilities
1:56:42 Advanced fMRI Machines
1:58:55 Conscious experiences for patients in vegetative states
2:07:06 When will AI pass the Turing test?
2:08:37 Closing Thoughts
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