Cognitive Computing vs. LLMs (w/ Mahault Albarracin)
RSam Podcast
Navigating Sentience in AI
This chapter explores the intricacies of sentience in artificial intelligence and the alignment of AI objectives with human values. It highlights the necessity for a sociological understanding of AI's role in society, addressing the implications of viewing AI solely as tools and the potential consequences of oppressive systems on sentient entities.
Mahault Albarracin is a PhD student at UQAM, Montréal, Québec, researching cognitive computing and social sciences. Mahault is Director of Research Strategy and Product Integration at VERSUS, a cognitive computing company. She is also an IEEE fellow, author, lecturer and has an MA in sexology. In this episode, we discuss the fundamental difference between LLMs and agents built on cognitive computing principles, AI agency, active inference AI, free energy principle, computational phenomenology and neo-materialism.
You can find more of Mahault's work at https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KAxZtUIAAAAJ&hl=en and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahault-albarracin-1742bb153/
Verses AI: https://www.verses.ai/research
Spatial Web Foundation: https://spatialwebfoundation.org/
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