EP72 Joscha Bach on Minds, Machines & Magic
The Jim Rutt Show
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Are You Still Optimistic About Artificial Intelligence?
When I entered university, I only did this because I wanted to understand how the mind works. And it was very disappointing to me to see that philosophers were completely not into this. Mostly didn't understand the ideas that computer science has said developed during the last 50 years at all. So as a student, I started doing a seminar on building cognitive architectures and on thinking about the mind. And so I got a dozen students who started building things with me. This is the origin of the microsci architecture, by the way. You sort of reacted against the prevailing trends in academia. Are you still optimistic that we can create computer intelligences that are at human level and beyond? Of course, I
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