Video 11: MPD – Is Another AI Winter Coming? And Why Does That Have Anything To Do With Free Will?

In this video we will talk about the hard problem of consciousness, Free Will, and how it relates to the current enthusiasm for Artificial Intelligence.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:36 What is an AI Winter?
01:12 Godel, Escher, Bach – A previous AI Winter response
02:28 Why Determinists believe true intelligence in AI is possible
04:25 An Aside: Particles or Waves?
05:18 What’s a Determinist?
07:56 What does Free Will mean?
09:42 Is Free Will causally determined?
10:58 What is the “Hard Problem” of consciousness?
12:44 What you believe about Free Will affects how you understand AI
13:58 Why Free Will advocates fail to convince the Determinists
16:03 Where we agree: We CAN choose – but is the causality determined by material or immaterial rules?
16:49 Conclusion: Sabine has the last word

Links:
Yann LeCun: We Won't Reach AGI By Scaling Up LLMS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4__gg83s_Do&t=24s
This changed my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRssqttO9Hg&t=10s

Memory Palace Updates:

The memory palaces that we worked on in videos #1-7 will now be used mostly for illustration purposes, although I will give updates from time to time. I will also update the dream addresses periodically, so that if you do play Animal Crossing New Horizons #ACNH you can continue to visit them.

Dream Addresses:
Memoria DA-8686-2923-3655
Paradise DA-5461-7571-7488
Haven DA-2046-0967-5100