AI asks what a machine can do. Artificial Consciousness asks something much harder: does the machine experience any of it? A machine can accumulate experience without experiencing anything. It can remember what happened, learn from it, reorganize it and change what it does next. All of that can be real. All of it can have consequences. None of it tells us whether anything was actually … Continue reading Conscious Machines?
I think the most interesting thing about space is that most of us are looking at it the wrong way. Yeap. For as long as I can remember, space has occupied a special place in my imagination. Not because I was an expert. I wasn’t. But like millions of people, I was fascinated by the same enduring questions: stars, distant planets, the possibility of alien … Continue reading The Future of Space Isn’t Exploration
… Apparently so. For those who remember, in 2017, Sophia walked into the future wearing a humanoid face and carrying a Saudi passport. Was that the absurdity or was it also the point? When I wrote about Sophia becoming a Saudi citizen, the obvious question was not whether the robot was truly intelligent. It was whether we understood what we had just symbolically done. If … Continue reading The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?
… in the AI era. ChatGPT, as many of you, I’ve been using it for over three years. I built a custom assistant on top of it more than two years ago, something I use almost daily, something I know the way you know a tool you’ve shaped with your own hands. It never nagged. It answered, and it stopped. A couple of days ago, … Continue reading The New Infinite Scroll
Is Really About Something Else In February 2018, I was getting ready for my trip to MWC in Barcelona, when the unexpected happened. My getting thinner despite my strong “healthy” eating (or not) fired an alarm that took me to my doctor and all of a sudden I woke up in a hospital bed with a 3 small scar and a big realization. The doctor … Continue reading The Quest for Success
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