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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

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Is Consciousness the Key to Intelligent Systems?

Do you think AGI systems need to have consciousness in order to be truly intelligent? Yeah, we thought about this a lot actually, and I think that my guess is that consciousness and intelligence are double dissociable. So you can have one without the other both ways. We're going to have devices that are pretty smart at certain things but potentially won't have any semblance of self-awareness or other things.

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