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#043 Prof J. Mark Bishop - Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning won't fix it.

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Argument That Computers Will Never Have Conscious States

I don't believe that computers can be conscious unless we're willing to accept a very nasty form of panpsychism. The idea that conscious phenomenal states are living in everything, the very cup of tea of coffee that I'm drinking at the moment has its own mental states. And so we're led to reject that horn. In fact it's one of the hypotheses that pushed the human brain project to one of the biggest European Union funding grants of all time - over a billion euros.

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