AIML Connect Friday: AI Consciousness
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024
- Location: AIML
- More information: Dr Opie's Researcher Page
- Dr Jon Opie Senior Lecturer with the University of Adelaide's School of Humanities
Jon spoke of the nature of consciousness and the prospects for conscious AI. An issue he raised is whether the ‘what-it-is-like’ of consciousness is a result of how brains process information or, by contrast, is a special material property of biological neural systems. If the former is true, we will have properly conscious AIs and robots in short order with all the ethical problems that raises.
