#043 Prof J. Mark Bishop - Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning won't fix it.

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Recorded19 Feb 2021

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Professor Mark Bishop does not think that computers can be conscious or have phenomenological states of consciousness unless we are willing to accept panpsychism which is idea that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world, or put simply, that your goldfish and everything else for that matter has a mind. Panpsychism postulates that distinctions between intelligences are largely arbitrary. Mark’s work in the ‘philosophy of AI’ led to an influential critique of computational approaches to Artificial Intelligence through a thorough examination of John Searle's 'Chinese Room Argument' Mark just published a paper called artificial intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning wont fix it. He makes it clear in this paper that in his opinion computers will never be able to compute everything, understand anything, or feel anything. 00:00:00 Tim Intro 00:15:04 Intro 00:18:49 Introduction to Marks ideas 00:25:49 Some problems are not computable 00:29:57 the dancing was Pixies fallacy 00:32:36 The observer relative problem, and its all in the mapping 00:43:03 Conscious Experience 00:53:30 Intelligence without representation, consciousness is something that we do 01:02:36 Consciousness helps us to act autonomously 01:05:13 The Chinese room argument 01:14:58 Simulation argument and computation doesn't have phenomenal consciousness 01:17:44 Language informs our colour perception 01:23:11 We have our own distinct ontologies 01:27:12 Kurt Gödel, Turing and Penrose and the implications of their work

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