In this famous article, Quining Qualia, Daniel Dennett argues against property dualist views that advocate for the existence of qualia. This is part of Prof…
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Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: bioelectricity underlies the collective intelligence of cellular swarms
This is a talk I gave to a neuroscience audience for the Harley Hotchkiss Memorial Lecture at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the Univers…
Graziano’s Attention Schema Theory, part 2
Professor Matt McCormick’s second lecture for Philosophy of Mind, Phil 153, at California State University, Sacramento, about Michael Graziano’s Attention Sc…
Graziano’s Attention Schema Theory part 1
Professor Matt McCormick’s lecture for Philosophy of Mind, Phil 153, at California State University, Sacramento, about Michael Graziano’s Attention Schema Theory of Awareness.
Google Gemini AI Model: Surpassing GPT 4 and Breaching 90% MMLU Score
The Memo: https://lifearchitect.ai/memo/ Gemini details: https://lifearchitect.ai/gemini/ Gemini demo: https://bard.google.com/ https://www.financialsense.com/ Recorded 8/Dec/2023 @ 5AM Perth time! More Alan: https://lifearchitect.ai/ https://lifearchitect.ai/gemini/
Seattle biotech hub pursues ‘DNA typewriter’ tech with $75M from tech billionaires
A new Seattle biotech organization will be funded to the tune of $75 million to research “DNA typewriters,” self-monitoring cells that could upend our understanding of biology. The collaboration between the University of Washington, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and the Allen Institute is already underway.
Called the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, the joint initiative will combine the expertise of the two well-funded research outfits with that of UW Medicine, working in what UW’s Jay Shendure, scientific lead for the project, called “a new model of collaboration.”
The Hub (not to be confused with the HUB, or Husky Union Building, on UW’s campus) aims to strike a balance between a disinterested intellectual academic approach and a development-focused commercial approach. The $75 million will fund the organization for five years, with the option to renew then.
Google Unveils Powerful New AI Said to Out-Think ChatGPT
Google on Wednesday infused its Bard chatbot with a new-generation artificial intelligence model called Gemini, which it touts as being able to reason better than ChatGPT and other rivals.
The search engine juggernaut is aiming to take the generative AI lead from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as that company deals with the aftermath of a boardroom coup that saw chief executive Sam Altman fired and then rehired within a matter of days.
Google has for years discreetly developed AI powers but was caught off guard when OpenAI late last year released ChatGPT and teamed up with Microsoft to make its capabilities available to users worldwide.
