Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this AMA session, cognitive scientist and AI researcher Joscha Bach joins Sophia, founder of BuzzRobot, to discuss the possibility of #ai consciousness, the evolution of the human mind, #enlightenment, #transcendence, and how to translate the meaning to AI, among other topics.

Timestamps:
0:00 Conducting a mirror test: Are ChatGPT and Claude conscious?
5:15 Are the heroes of Westworld conscious or enlightened?
8:14 Levels of lucidity: The stages of human mind development
19:17 Discussing the effects of psychedelics on the human mind
26:51 Building the topology of understanding for LLMs
34:54 Translating understanding into language models
37:42 Trip to New Zealand and the first encounter with transformer-like models
43:16 How to translate meaning to AI
47:50 Joscha Bach’s new insights and his key intellectual influences

#artificialintelligence #machineconsciousness #aiconsciousness #largelanguagemodels #llms #aireasoning #cognitivescience #science #aimodel #machinelearning #reinforcementlearning #airesearch #techtalk #techtalks #aitalks #aitalk #science

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Newsletter: buzzrobot.substack.com
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