Cognition, Consciousness, & The Future of Ai | Maxwell Ramstead (EP41)

Maxwell Ramstead is a cognitive scientist and physicist, and Director of Research at VERSESAI. What if we could build AI that performs real inference, just as humans do? What will the future of AI look like? Understanding cognition, active inference, collective intelligence, and consciousness can help us find out. Expect to learn about AI that conducts real-time inference and learning, how to conceptualize LLMs, why it doesn't make sense to think of "general intelligence" or AGI, how all intelligence is inherently collective, about the nature of consciousness and the self, and more... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 00:26 - VERSESAI and Utilizing Cognitive Science to Design AI 09:39 - How All Intelligence Is "Collective Intelligence" 22:26 - Innovative Approaches to AI Development 30:46 - Computational Specialization & The Intelligence of Distributed Cognition 38:26 - Explaining Consciousness Using the FEP 53:56 - Debating the Unity of Consciousness MAXWELL RAMSTEAD: -X: @mjdramstead -Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxwell-Ramstead REFERENCED IN THE EPISODE: -Podcast on improving computation by learning from biology: https://youtu.be/4iR6lVxioHs -Podcast on collective intelligence and the flowy, multifractal nature of cognition: https://youtu.be/nwj9TZDguwc FOLLOW THE PODCAST: -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1qAI1huc87xNDrgy?si=62c281d9e8274694 -X: https://twitter.com/jack_roycroft -Medium: https://medium.com/@jackroycroftsherry