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Terry Sejnowski: NeurIPS and the Future of AI

Eye On A.I.

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What Is Consciousness?

GB3 sounds a lot like a philosopher. But if you ask, what's the definition of these words, right? Consciousness. There is no real definition. And saying true of intelligence, understanding all those words are ones that we use in a colloquial way. We kind of understand what you mean by consciousness because we experience something. It's just hard to figure out some more fundamental level like in physics or chemistry. So what I think is going to happen over the next decades is there will be from understanding transformers and these large language models, we may actually come up with a real theory of consciousness for all of these words"

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