Dr. Terry Sejnowski

Boy, amphetamines are a good example. Boy, you're going a mile a minute. when you're taking the drug, of course, I fully understand that that's your impression. And the reality is you don't actually accomplish that much more.

Boy, amphetamines are a good example. Boy, you're going a mile a minute. when you're taking the drug, of course, I fully understand that that's your impression. And the reality is you don't actually accomplish that much more.

Boy, amphetamines are a good example. Boy, you're going a mile a minute. when you're taking the drug, of course, I fully understand that that's your impression. And the reality is you don't actually accomplish that much more.

We've done this experiment on our whole cadre, a whole generation. And I really would like to know the answer. I wonder if anybody's studying it. That's really a great question. Because we gave them speed effectively, the drug that causes the brain to be activated. But by the way, the consequence is that when it wears off, you... have no energy. You're just completely spent.

We've done this experiment on our whole cadre, a whole generation. And I really would like to know the answer. I wonder if anybody's studying it. That's really a great question. Because we gave them speed effectively, the drug that causes the brain to be activated. But by the way, the consequence is that when it wears off, you... have no energy. You're just completely spent.

We've done this experiment on our whole cadre, a whole generation. And I really would like to know the answer. I wonder if anybody's studying it. That's really a great question. Because we gave them speed effectively, the drug that causes the brain to be activated. But by the way, the consequence is that when it wears off, you... have no energy. You're just completely spent.

But that's why you take more of it. That's the problem. It's a spiral.

But that's why you take more of it. That's the problem. It's a spiral.

But that's why you take more of it. That's the problem. It's a spiral.

Well, if you go back 500 years, you know, to the Middle Ages, the concept didn't exist, or at least not in the way we use it. Because everybody, it was the way that humans felt about the world. you know, the world and how it worked and its impact on them was that it's all fate.

Well, if you go back 500 years, you know, to the Middle Ages, the concept didn't exist, or at least not in the way we use it. Because everybody, it was the way that humans felt about the world. you know, the world and how it worked and its impact on them was that it's all fate.

Well, if you go back 500 years, you know, to the Middle Ages, the concept didn't exist, or at least not in the way we use it. Because everybody, it was the way that humans felt about the world. you know, the world and how it worked and its impact on them was that it's all fate.

They had this concept of fate, which is that there's nothing you can do that something is going to happen to you because of what's going on in the gods above or whatever it is, right? You attribute it to the physical forces around you that caused it. Not to your own free will, not to something that caused this to happen to you, right?

They had this concept of fate, which is that there's nothing you can do that something is going to happen to you because of what's going on in the gods above or whatever it is, right? You attribute it to the physical forces around you that caused it. Not to your own free will, not to something that caused this to happen to you, right?

They had this concept of fate, which is that there's nothing you can do that something is going to happen to you because of what's going on in the gods above or whatever it is, right? You attribute it to the physical forces around you that caused it. Not to your own free will, not to something that caused this to happen to you, right?

So I think that these words, by the way, that we use, free will, consciousness, intelligence, understanding, they're weasel words because you can't pin them down. There is no definition of consciousness that everybody agrees on. And it's tough to solve a problem scientific problem if you don't have a definition that you can agree on.

So I think that these words, by the way, that we use, free will, consciousness, intelligence, understanding, they're weasel words because you can't pin them down. There is no definition of consciousness that everybody agrees on. And it's tough to solve a problem scientific problem if you don't have a definition that you can agree on.

So I think that these words, by the way, that we use, free will, consciousness, intelligence, understanding, they're weasel words because you can't pin them down. There is no definition of consciousness that everybody agrees on. And it's tough to solve a problem scientific problem if you don't have a definition that you can agree on.

And you know, there's this big controversy about whether these large language models understand language or not, right? The way we do. And what it really is revealing is we don't understand what understanding is. Literally, we don't have a really good argument or measure that you could measure someone's understanding and then apply it to the chat GDP and see whether it's the same.

And you know, there's this big controversy about whether these large language models understand language or not, right? The way we do. And what it really is revealing is we don't understand what understanding is. Literally, we don't have a really good argument or measure that you could measure someone's understanding and then apply it to the chat GDP and see whether it's the same.