2min chapter

The Next Big Idea cover image

Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual Worlds: The Future of Sentience

The Next Big Idea

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Cognitive Empathy

If cognitive empathy is emerging in GPT-4 sparks of sparks of general AI, which we appear to be seeing, there could be a view that this could be the very early stages of laying the groundwork for an emergence of some form of consciousness or self-awareness. When we think about how consciousness actually potentially emerges, because we have this problem that we have basically no idea how consciousness emerged in humans, there are many theories. And one of them is based on the theory of mind that basically like our, you know, we evolved to get better at predicting the future.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode