Joscha Bach is a German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures, artificial intelligence, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, multi-agent systems, and the philosophy of mind.
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Steve and Joscha discuss:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Growing up in the forest in East Germany
06:23 Academia: early neural net pioneers, CS and Philosophy
10:17 The fall of the Berlin Wall
14:57 Commodore 64 and early programming experiences
15:29 AGI timeline and predictions
19:35 Scaling hypothesis, beyond Transformers, universality of information structures and world models
25:29 Consciousness
41:11 The ethics of brain interventions, zombies, and the Turing test
43:43 LLMs and simulated phenomenology
46:34 The future of consciousness research
48:44 Cultural perspectives on suffering
52:19 AGI and humanity's future
58:18 Simulation hypothesis
01:03:33 Liquid AI: Innovations and goals
01:16:02 Philosophy of Identity: the Transporter Problem, Is there anything beyond memory records?
Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.
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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SuperFocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.
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