BI 016 Ryota Kanai: Artificial Consciousness

Brain Inspired

Nov 01 2018 | 00:55:36

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Show Notes

Show notes:

Ryota founded the company Araya.
Follow him on twitter: @kanair.
Integrated Information Theory.
Pansychism.
The paper we discuss:
- A unified strategy for implementing curiosity and empowerment driven reinforcement learning.
An excellent article by Ryota in Nautilus..
- We Need Conscious Robots.
Higher order theories of consciousness.
The hard problem of consciousness.
The free energy principle.

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