mpshanahan.bsky.social
Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
👤 Joined on 29 Dezember 2023
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@mpshanahan.bsky.socialSuper happy to launch this interview series on Agentic AI with these amazing thinkers ! More timely than ever - stay tuned and stay safe 😊!
Show Post(Incidentally, I read Ted Chiang's essay and found it persuasive, I see now that he cites your work so I'm delighted to have found the original source!)
Show PostMany don't see how much AI has changed recently. Coding agents aren't just chatbots. We can’t deal with the challenges of AI if we don’t understand it. Here's a post to provide some evidence (Claude doing small ML experiments) and form intuitions. davidpreichert.substack.com/p/if-you-hav... 🧵..
Show PostFull understanding doesn't exist, and requiring it is unfair. Dissecting the many components of "consciousness" is essential. Which aspects are purely functional (e.g., self awareness) and which are inherently biological (perhaps pain?) are important questions. 4/
Show PostI think his statement that "We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious" is weak. I think we do need to understand a substantial amount about consciousness, just not "fully"? 3/
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