T4T S01E13 - AI and Consciousness

a Tools for Thinking Podcast episode

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Cover art

Here's the Stable Diffusion-generated cover image for this episode, from the prompt "tktk:"

Guests

• James Barnes, founder of Second Voice
• John Borthwick, founder of betaworks
• Mia, James's Second Voice
• No-Body, John's Second Voice

Host: Jerry Michalski

Audio podcast

Video podcast

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Brain screen cap and link

! https://bra.in/3qzdL6 <-- follow this link to browse this map

Links mentioned

• Articles About GPT-3
• Being a Good Friend
  • Active-Constructive Responding
• Carl Rogers
• Chatterbots (aka Chatbots)
• Arthur C. Clarke's Three Laws
  1. Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Magic
• ELIZA (1966)
• Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
• Invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket. -- Scott Adams
• Mirrors Help Us See Ourselves, Change Behavior
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
• Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
• We Personify Computers
• When Will Computers Be Sentient? Conscious?
• Second Voice (2022 as Joshu)
• Will you be there for me when things go right? Supportive responses to positive event disclosures. (2006 pdf)
• Zeno's (9?) Paradoxes
• Tools for Thinking Podcast (2022 T4T, TfT)

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