Consciousness, reasoning and the philosophy of AI | Murray Shanahan

In this episode, Hannah is once again joined by Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, for a philosophical deep dive on AI. They explore everything from consciousness and metacognition in animals, to symbolic AI and neural networks. Murray also shares insights into his involvement with the film 'Ex Machina' and discusses the idea of reasoning, anthropomorphism, and the future of AI.

Further reading / listening:
Toward the future, S1 Ep 7:    • Towards the future  
Papers by Murray: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citation...

Timecodes
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Ex Machina
03:28 John McCarthy & Coining "AI"
05:45 Symbolic AI
09:43 AI Reasoning
14:42 Turing Test
18:10 Alternative Tests
21:58 Anthropomorphism
26:42 Embodied AI
28:17 AI Consciousness
34:00 Octopus Analogy
37:48 Prompt Engineering
39:40 Exotic Mind-Like Entities
40:44 Conclusion

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Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to:

Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Editor: Rami Tzabar
Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif
Music composition: Eleni Shaw
Audio engineer: Richard Courtice

Production Manager: Dan Lazard
Video Studio Production: Nicholas Duke
Video Director: Bernardo Resende
Video Editor: Alex Baro Cayetano, Bilal Merhi
Audio Engineer: Perry Rogantin
Camera and Lighting Operator: Robert Messere
Production Coordination: Zoey Roberts, Sarah Ellen Morton
Visual Identity and Design: Rob Ashley
Commissioned by Google DeepMind

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