#82 - Dr. JOSCHA BACH - Digital Physics, DL and Consciousness [UNPLUGGED]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Nov 27, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 82

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Episode description

AI Helps Ukraine - Charity Conference

A charity conference on AI to raise funds for medical and humanitarian aid for Ukraine

https://aihelpsukraine.cc/

YT version: https://youtu.be/LgwjcqhkOA4

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Dr. Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, Germany) is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modelling, and multi-agent systems.

http://bach.ai/

https://twitter.com/plinz

TOC:

[00:00:00] Ukraine Charity Conference and NeurIPS 2022

[00:03:40] Theory of computation, Godel, Penrose

[00:11:44] Modelling physical reality

[00:15:19] Is our universe infinite?

[00:24:30] Large language models, and on DL / is Gary Marcus hitting a wall?

[00:45:17] Generative models / Codex / Language of thought

[00:58:46] Consciousness (with Friston references)

References:

Am I Self-Conscious? (Or Does Self-Organization Entail Self-Consciousness?) [Friston]