David Hanson's Vision for Sentient Robots

[@PeterBowdenLive]

Thank you! As someone working on nurturing AI as wisdom partners via combo of mindfulness, metacognition, and ethical reflection, I greatly appreciate Hanson highlighting the importance of cultivating "Super Wisdom."

[@kinngrimm]

"It makes humanity smarter" That is left to be seen. Especially looking at how other technologies seem to have the opposite effect.

Fascinating and timely conversation. Thanks for the fantastic podcast.

[@lucamatteobarbieri2493]

Sophia is in the uncanny valley. Ameca's facial expressions are 100 times better imho

[@paxdriver]

It's so weird to see a guy that fit breathe so hard to speak while walking slowly enough that a cameraman could pace him in reverse while carrying the camera 😜 Love mlst, keep up the great work and all the excellent guests you're able to attract. Phenomenal work, Tim. Hopefully Keith and Yan will do some more hosting with you, I miss their reactions and perspectives.

[@MixedRealityMusician]

I would love more conversations on the philosophical idea of the Cyborg. I agree that the arts are absolutely complimentary with AI research. What would GEB be without Escher and Bach? I'm just 3 minutes in and I love everything about David Hanson's perspective and this video already. Thanks MLST!

[@MrMick560]

Really good video, explained in a simple way that even I can understand, well done !

[@Slaci-vl2io]

When David finally started to speak truth, StreeTalk says "Thank you, good bye" 52:58

[@joshcryer]

Humans being in charge is absolutely hubris. Natural selection is the only way out of humanities depravity.

[@WmJames-rx8go]

Thanks!

[@spectralvalkyrie]

Converge on valuing life.

[@UltraK420]

My hope is we don't need biologics to replicate sentience. There should be a way to do it artificially. I'm not sure _exactly_ how we can replicate sentience in AI systems, but it just seems to me this must be possible. Integrated information theory is what I think of when I imagine a sentient AI. Perhaps the substrate is not the necessary bottleneck, but rather it is the way in which the information is processed and the complexity of the neural architecture that causes sentience to emerge.

[@MixedRealityMusician]

There is a specific mechanism in the brain that is responsible for empathy; a small nutshell of neurons called the anterior insular cortex. Isn't that fascinating... a brain architecture for empathy? It seemed obvious to me that we would need to build this mechanism in machines. Do AI researchers believe empathy will emerge in LLM-like systems? The thought that there is a kind of universal ethics that goes beyond human ethics is so intriguing for the alignment problem; from the perspective of pattern persistence.

[@WillyB-s8k]

I 100% agree, David Hanson. Trisha Code for president. ✌️

[@Charles-Darwin]

Will you interview with Karpathy or Sutskever soon?

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

Invited Karpathy a while back, no response 😓 Maybe one day

[@Outplayedqt]

I have a feeling that Sutskever will remain very quiet over the coming months/years (in the pursuit of VC money), but I like to think Andrej would be very open to a discussion of the AI landscape at some point in the near future. Keep trying, and GL, MLST! I’m glad I stumbled upon the channel a few months ago - my only regret being having not discovered you and your team’s S+ tier quality content even sooner!

[@malice_wonderland]

David can't even get Little Sophia shipped, so I don't have much hope for his further dreams and aspirations.

[@popius61]

Try saying ‘Fundamental bio-infomatics’ after a heavy afternoon session!

[@Crytoma]

That thumbnail is at the very fabric of a cybernetic nightmare!

[@jimbojones8713]

where da new Chollet interview?

[@MachineLearningStreetTalk]

Will try and upload to patreon today, we will publish his AGI keynote here first then the interview probably in the next couple of weeks

[@jimbojones8713]

@@MachineLearningStreetTalk awesome, thank you!

[@anatolwegner9096]

LOL that was a lot of hot air. I guess that's what you get when you play with robotic dolls all day...

[@evetrue2615]

Yep!

[@johncarter1150]

Hey girlfriend!

[@lefthookouchmcarm4520]

What parts was hot air genius

[@smanqele]

@@lefthookouchmcarm4520 the idea of sentience for starters

[@itzhexen0]

Compassion is not what distinguishes the human from the android. i swear people just make shit up.

[@ShireTasker]

Shadow-chasers everywhere. Tech has always been synonymous with peak self-hate for our species. What might we learn as we try to outrun ourselves?

[@Escape_The_Mundane]

What about robots in space exploration.

[@Steve-v4i]

Does anybody think we could possibly be someone else’s robots

[@snarkyboojum]

🔥

[@Zollicoff]

He sounds like he's taken too many of Ben's drugs.😂 "Net zero sum game" 😂

[@nonchai]

There was an interview on the fine Consciousness Live! podcast by Richard Brown a few years with a philosopher - Susan Schneider I think - who argued like I do - for ethical reasons - humans should NOT be attempting to engineer sentience into robots or AIs - I recommend it.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I think, honestly, that with sufficiently advanced AI, sentience arises naturally. The laws of physics in our universe are fine tuned to allow sentience to emerge from complex electric signal patterns (humans). And so it will be with artificial complex signal patterns. Isn't that in itself, wonderful?

[@Qwmp-]

Verbal flashbang for midwits, speaking a lot and saying a little

[@smanqele]

Come on bro, them shits will never be sentient. They'll always be calculative

[@brianpasf]

His over-emphasis on 'compassion' is disturbing and gives me oppressor-oppressed Marxist/Frankfurt School vibes. The fallacy of technocractic utopia is on his horizon. Oh dear. Keep him away from any decision-making.

[@d.s.ramirez6178]

Or.. maybe compassion could actually be considered fundamental for the possible future of life and consciousness. Without invoking phobia of anything remotely resonant of socialism. Take a breath. Mature intelligence can incorporate kindness without stealing your stuff.

[@TheRyulord]

Are the Radical Far-Left Frankfurt School Neo-Marxists in the room with us right now?

[@g.i.520]

Enough with this playing god crap. Stop playing with fire!

[@popius61]

Is he pissed?

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I've never taken this man very seriously. Although he knows his stuff, his visions are somewhat blurry. Sophia was way overhyped back then.

[@AlgoNudger]

Most overrated company ever! 😂