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63 - The Question of Consciousness (Ft. David Chalmers)

Why This Universe?

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AI Consciousness

David Chalmers: We're already building machines that can emulate a lot of human behavior. In the not so distant future you could credibly argue that something passes the Turing test, he says. "I think on standard assumptions about from the science of consciousness, most likely not" But over the next 10 years it looks like many of the things which might be missing will come to be present in these systems,. Sensors and a body, world models, recurrent processes and memory are just some of them.

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