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from official page: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12167-synthetic_sentience Despite the rapid progress of AI capabilities, the core question of Artificial Intelligence seems to be still unanswered: What does it take to create a mind? Let us explore the boundaries of AI: sentience, self awareness, and the possibility of machine consciousness. After many attempts to build AI models that are smarter than human beings, we find ourselves confronted with a family of surprisingly successful systems that match many of our abilities through text prediction and text/image correlation. The limits of these approaches are presently unclear, and while they work in very different ways than our minds, they pose the question whether consciousness, embodiment and motivation are necessary for achieving general intelligence. What are the differences between human (and animal) minds and the current generation of AI models? When we compare perspectives on mind and consciousness that have been developed in neuroscience, philosophy of mind, theoretical and therapeutic psychology, and numerous cultural traditions, and translate them into the metaphysics and conceptual frameworks of artificial intelligence, we may gain insights into this question. --- organizer: @mediacccde Joscha Bach's Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Plinz --- chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:00 What is consciousness? 00:06:03 Computationalism and representation 00:11:01 Consciousness as second-order perception 00:15:16 The problem of ontology and metaphysics 00:20:46 Biological and artificial intelligence 00:30:23 Ethics and collective agency 00:39:03 Self-organizing systems and sentience 00:45:19 Evolution and intelligent design 00:51:02 Substrate-agnostic minds and uploads 00:56:09 Questions and answers 01:03:02 End of talk