This AI says it’s conscious and experts are starting to agree. w Elon Musk.



Elon Musk and “conscious AI.” Please visit https://brilliant.org/digitalengine – a great place to learn about AI and STEM subjects. You can get started for free and the first 200 people will get 20% off a premium annual subscription.

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I used GPT-3 and a Synthesia avatar. All answers are by GPT-3 (except the brief joke at the end).

For a deeper drive, I’d recommend the book Life 3.0, by MIT Professor Max Tegmark.

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Elon Musk with Lex Fridman.

Human decisions depend on time of day (peer-reviewed study).
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018033108

High school student builds brain-controlled AI arm.
https://interestingengineering.com/student-prosthetic-arm-artificial-intelligence

Google publishes largest map of brain connectivity.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/22/21076806/google-janelia-flyem-fruit-fly-brain-map-hemibrain-connectome

High-performance brain-to-text communication via imagined handwriting.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.01.183384v1.full

Alphafold.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2021/10/03/alphafold-is-the-most-important-achievement-in-ai-ever/?sh=5c75be76e0af

AI investment has risen rapidly, to $170 billion last year:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence-index

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