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#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI

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What Breathes Fire and Magic Into the Machine?

Stephen Hawking asked what breathes fire into equations, which meant what makes given mathematical equations realize the physics of a universe. So how do we engineer consciousness? How do you breathe fire and magic into the machine? It seems clear to me that not every computation is conscious. My intuition is that it can be fully abstracted away. Metacompression consciousness is metacompression. That's an idea. And in some sense, you know, thank you.

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