Philosopher, Google DeepMind Scientist & Ex Machina Advisor, Murray Shanahan | The Human Podcast

In this episode, I speak to the scientific advisor of the film 'Ex Machina', Professor Murray Shanahan. Murray works at Google DeepMind as a Principal Research Scientist, and is a Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London. He is an expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI). We talk about the philosophy of AI, consciousness, reasoning and more!

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🕒 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Helping with Ex Machina film
3:13 - What Ex Machina taught me about AI
5:25 - Is Ex Machina a realistic look at the future?
6:55 - 'Her' film / AI relationships
9:03 - Watershed robotics moment
11:00 - Conversations with AI (LLM Chatbots)
16:19 - Disturbing moments with AI
18:05 - Theme of my career
19:54 - Interest in technical & philosophical areas
23:26 - Google DeepMind & Imperial College London
24:25 - Being a student
28:15 - Early life
33:11 - Buddhism interest
35:55 - Future plans
39:00 - Consciousness / Conscious exotica
45:30 - What is a good life?

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Conscious Exotica (Aeon article) - https://aeon.co/essays/beyond-humans-...
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