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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

Talks at Google

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Kurzweil: If man-made computers can think, machines can think. But computation is defined purely formally or syntactically. Turing machines are not to be found in nature. They're to be Found in our interpretation of nature. How do we know if a computer is conscious? We don't have a computer today that seems conscious. It's convincing in its responses but my prediction is we will. And when we do, how do weknow if it's conscious or if it just seems conscious? How do we measure that?

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