Karl Friston
speaker
402 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
Karl Friston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
So the encoding uncertainty.
in working out how to sate your needs.
um to me is the heart of feeling uh as I read Mark.
He didn't say that, so I'm going to pass it back to him to see if he wants to be slightly less simple.
Yeah, just having an inference machine that that complies with uh some prior preferences.
Um I I I I mean it may be right, but I get the feeling that that that much of your thinking and the your and I know of course Tevin does as well, but for those people don't know, uh Mark actually has a group.
group of bright young things actually trying to build artificial consciousness at the moment, uh and he's taken it a little bit further than his uh straightforward explanation would suggest.
Um I just make a couple of uh just to pick up on something that was implicit but really important.
So notice that Mark when he's actually getting into the job of building machine consciousness, um notice that everything was about policies.
Which means that we're talking about functional architectures that support agency.
So that's quite important.
You're not gonna get
Consciousness from a large language model, because the large language model doesn't do the prompting.
It doesn't act upon the world.
Um, so you have to have a a different kind of functional architecture to have policies, to have in mind the consequences of your actions, and indeed, to use Marx's word, to feel your way into the future and then select the most likely and adjust in the face of evidence that you secure by pursuing.
this policy or or that policy.
I thought it was just important to say that you know there are certain architectures that um are requisite if you ever want to to walk towards uh you have a a conscious artifact.
And that notion of agency
I think it it's just worthwhile noting that the very word to feel is a verb.
So to feel it's not a state of I am not in a state of being of feeling.
Showing 321–340 of 402 · page 17 of 21
← Previous
Next →