Joscha Bach Λ Ben Goertzel: Conscious Ai, LLMs, AGI

Joscha Bach meets with Ben Goertzel to discuss cognitive architectures, AGI, and conscious computers in another theolocution on TOE.

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LINKS MENTIONED:
– OpenCog (Ben’s Ai company): https://opencog.org
– SingularityNET (Ben’s Decentralized Ai company): https://singularitynet.io
– Podcast w/ Joscha Bach on TOE: https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI
– Podcast w/ Ben Goertzel on TOE: https://youtu.be/27zHyw_oHSI
– Podcast w/ Michael Levin and Joscha on TOE: https://youtu.be/kgMFnfB5E_A
– Podcast w/ John Vervaeke and Joscha on TOE: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4
– Podcast w/ Donald Hoffman and Joscha on TOE: https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww

TIMESTAMPS:
– 00:00:00 Introduction
– 00:02:23 Computation vs Awareness
– 00:06:11 The paradox of language and self-contradiction
– 00:10:05 The metaphysical categories of Charles Peirce
– 00:13:00 Zen Buddhism’s category of zero
– 00:14:18 Carl Jung’s interpretation of four
– 00:21:22 Language as “representation”
– 00:28:48 Computational reality vs AGI
– 00:33:06 Consciousness in particles
– 00:44:18 Anesthesia and consciousness: Joscha’s personal perspective
– 00:54:36 Levels of consciousness levels (panpsychism vs functionalism)
– 00:56:23 Deep neural nets & LLMs as steps backward from AGI?
– 01:05:04 Emergent properties of LLMs
– 01:12:26 Turing-completeness and its implications
– 01:15:08 OpenAI’s bold claims challenged
– 01:24:24 Future of AGI
– 01:31:58 Intelligent species after human extinction
– 01:36:33 Emergence of a cosmic mind
– 01:43:56 The timeline to AGI development
– 01:52:16 The physics of immortality
– 01:54:00 Critique of Integrated Information Theory (pseudoscience?)