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Check out my book Being You, and my prize-winning essay The Mythology of Conscious AI.
'Prospects and pitfalls for conscious AI' - I'm excited to be giving a keynote lecture for #AGI2026 in an hour (12:15 PT, 27 July). Sadly I can't be in San Francisco in person.
Welcome to AGI-26 Workshop Day, streamed live from San Francisco State University.
The opening day of AGI-26 begins at 3:25 PM UTC and features a series of specialized workshops exploring key areas of Artificial General Intelligence research, a fireside chat between @GaryMarcus
It would have been even more of a treat if we'd been able to see Maggie (Boden)'s reply. The cutaways to her patient smiling skepticism are priceless:
Wonderful! I've heard of Searle's "Chinese Room" thought experiment in philosophy (which aims to show that AI doesn't "understand" anything) -- but it's a treat to see Searle explain it.