Dr Shamil Chandaria talks at Oxford University on 24th October 2023 on consciousness and AI. What is the likelihood that Artificial General Intelligence becomes conscious?
Contents
1. Consciousness & Intelligence and the relationship between them
- An AI Agent
- A Definition of Intelligence
- What is Consciousness?
- Intelligence and Consciousness are a priori orthogonal
2. The Neuroscience of Consciousness
- Neuroscience theories of consciousness
- Computational Functionalism
- Marr’s 3 levels of informational processing systems
- Global workspace
- Recurrent processing
- Predictive Processing
- Higher order thought theory
- Integrated Information Theory
- Emerging unified schema of consciousness
3. The Metaphysics of Consciousness
- Metaphysical theories
- Consciousness and the contents of consciousness
- Sidestepping Metaphysics
4. Features associated with a rich phenomenal experiencing
5. AGI will require architectural computational features associated with Consciousness
6. The possibility of suffering and flourishing in conscious AI
- Phenomenal character of AGI
- Existence is full of negative valence
- Negative Synthetic Phenomenology
- Suffering
- Awakening and Enlightenment of AI
- Flourishing of AI and the Cosmos
