Suzanne Gildert
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Experienced in designing and building AGI, robotics and quantum computing. Now interested in consciousness technologies.
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Y'all know what the yellow light means... Phoenix running autonomous! - Stay tuned to learn more. And don't worry,
@TheSanctuaryAI
training data is hand selected by people that care, so our policies will be super-friendly.
#behaviorcloning
#RL
#autonomous
#friendlypolicies
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Hope this video clears up concerns around “teleoperated robot demos”. Teleop is for collecting data! No conspiracy theory here. Also checkout Phoenix's light… We did that to help you tell the difference 😉 Not everyone will be so kind. You’re welcome
#teleoperation
#honesty
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Don't want to worry anyone, but... the T-shirt manipulation era is already here folks.
#datacollection
#teleoperation
#humanoidrobots
#garmentcare
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If you had a human-like robot working in your home running a cognitive architecture that had no true consciousness / feelings / emotions but behaviorally appeared to "mimic" having them (in other words was a philosophical zombie) would this bother you?
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All humanoid robot company CTOs should Midjourney-merge themselves with their creations and then we can argue over who looks the most badass
#midjourney
#generativeAI
#Iamarobot
#cyborgmotherofAGI
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Does our human
#consciousness
have
#quantum
dynamics? I'm at the Science of Consciousness conference to learn from the best thinkers in the world! What is your PoV? Eyeing how to apply insights to robotic minds.
#microtubules
#exciting
#penroselove
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Super fun talking to
@DrKnowItAll16
and he gave me the chance to geek out a bit about some ML stuff, which was awesome. Love me some deepdive techtalk!
#embodiedAGI
#robotchildren
#MLgeeking
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Super fangirl moment for me today, as I love NVIDIA and Omniverse :D
@TheSanctuaryAI
was featured in NVIDIA’s CES 2024 special address. Awesome to see Phoenix highlighted as a humanoid platform for data collection via Omniverse! We’re at 29:32 here:
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Hi from the Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson :) Learning about neuroscience and human consciousness so we can apply it to humanoid robots and AI systems.
#consciousness
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@brainyday
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Quantum Consciousness thought of the day... The purpose of life (aka the "final goal" in AI/RL parlance) being to maximize exploration of experience space is a better theory than pure Darwinism (survival and reproduction being the final goal). Survival and reproduction being
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Today we are collecting data from Phoenix robots for behavior cloning on sortation tasks. Lots of data collection now happening
@TheSanctuaryAI
every day. It's adding to an ever-growing ginormous data lake for training Large Behavior Models :)
#dataismylifenow
#behindthescenes
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Quantum Consciousness thought of the day: The only way we will EVER be able to scientifically explore subjective consciousness / qualia is with so called "2nd person science". What this means in practice is that we have to connect 2 or more human brains together and have the
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Quantum consciousness thought of the day... Does anyone else find it strange that cilia enable motion in tiny single-celled organisms (ciliates) and that they are also made of microtubules? Could complex behavioral computations be performed by the same structure as the motor
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Biology uses quantum process. “We still have not reverse engineered photosynthesis… biology is pulling off technological feats that we are not able to do yet.”
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@justinmriddle
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@JRiddlepodcast
#consciousnesstech
#quantumconsciousness
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I am in a superposition of being fascinated / excited by ORCH-OR and being highly skeptical of it. Digging into the deep science of it all, at the intersection of quantum computing, biology, AI, philosophy, neuroscience... It's so exhausting, I am pretty much ready to collapse.
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Maybe the goal of life is to try to build larger and larger macroscopic quantum states over which it has control, (ability to collapse the wave function and choose the multiverse branch) giving the universe more choice in what happens to larger and larger clumps of matter. You
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Why does Midjourney always think that neurons on a chip have weird metallic spores coming out of them? 🤔Love MJ to death, but can someone create a gen AI company that creates more scientific images? Also one for scientific diagrams too kthx
#generativeai
#neurons
#biotech
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Great to see so many bio and chem tech researchers at UBC today for a Women in STEM networking event, part of the Accelerate Conference, in partnership with UofT. I’m working hard with my partner on a new stealth AI startup developing neurotech. Stay tuned for the launch!
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Why do we "have" consciousness? What useful skills / properties are correlated with it? Creativity, intuition, nuanced reasoning and judgment, emotion, empathy, feeling, awe, curiosity, mindfulness, self-awareness, and wisdom are all properties I'd associate with consciousness.
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Is AI becoming super-capable an enlightening force? If AI / robots can DO everything a person can, it’s harder for people to craft a unique, high-status identity around their ego story. Assuming we can take care of basic needs, this may force us to prioritize being over doing.
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Consciousness explained! "You are a
#quantum
computer with free will supervising a vast hierarchy of cognitive systems" - Great video .
@justinmriddle
#quantumconsciousness
#consciousness
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@FloridaState
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Quantum Consciousness thought of the day... The scientific method only works if the laws of physics are fixed, as they are verified by reproducibility / statistical average. Rare events could happen where the laws are violated, but then the scientific method would either average
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Quantum consciousness thought(s) of the day... OK hear me out because this is tentative (and might take a while to describe). I'm trying to think practically - experimental physicist here - about how to test ORCH-OR. The thing I keep coming back to is this concept of the
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Has anyone ever seen a robot (other than one teleoperated by a human) that seemed "alive"? Not talking about movies/cgi here, real life only. There's something fascinating about the "spark of life". Living matter seems very different than non-living matter. Why?
#whatislife
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To celebrate
@WorldQuantumDay
I thought about microtubules. I had many thoughts about them simultaneously and the universe chose the right ones.
#quantumconsciousness
#ORCHOR
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"We can test the conjecture that quantum processes create conscious experience"
Loved Hartmut Neven's talk today. Great to see world experts exploring quantum mechanics underlying
#consciousness
here in Arizona. 🧠
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@GoogleQuantumAI
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@brainyday
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OK help me out people. I'm trying to understand / unpick the general concepts of quantum consciousness theory in microtubules. First dumb question: Where is the actual qubit / qudit / quXit located? AFAIK the proposed quantum state is topological, where the conformal structure of
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Hypothesis: The degree to which people are bothered by the hard problem of consciousness correlates with trait openness :)
#consciousness
#experience
#big5
#psychology
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Interested to know - from the IIT perspective, would a large ant colony be considered to be conscious / have a high Phi value? There seems to be a lot of information exchange between the sub-units (ants), similar to neurons communicating with one another.
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Legends! Can you name them all?? ;)
#consciousness
#brains
#inspiration
#quantum
#actuallyinterestingconferencepanel
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Riffing on the concept of Knightian uncertainty in quantum mechanics as a mechanism for agency / free will… What if the collapse of the wavefunction is not random in the case where the outcome matters to the universe (quantum state is big enough for some highly orchestrated
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Eminent .
@DavidChalmers42
on consciousness: “It’s impossible for me to be believe [it] is an illusion…maybe it actually protects for us to believe that consciousness is an illusion. It’s all part of the evolutionary illusion. So that’s part of the charm.” .
@brainyday
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1/2 Quantum Consciousness thought of the day... Listening to Federico Faggin. The point he is making is that inner experience (qualia) have properties that are very similar to quantum information, because you can't know them from the outside.
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Agree or disagree: Behavioral correlates of consciousness are more important than neural correlates of consciousness?
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1/2 Quantum consciousness thought of the day... Biological systems that are are less predictable are better at surviving predation. If quantum processes COULD be harnessed by control systems to create truly non-deterministic behavior, evolution would have selected for them.
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This tree with lights reminded me of a neuron with all its microtubules undergoing ORCH-OR "bing" moments.
#microtubule
#neuron
#quantumconsciousness
#ORCHOR
@StuartHameroff
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If the brain is a quantum computer, it follows that it might be possible to build a QC out of the brain. So smartest way to provide evidence for ORCH-OR is to attempt to build a QC out of microtubules. If you can, there’s good evidence that QC might be going on in vivo.
#quantum
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A useful taxonomy? I like describing complex concepts by parameterizing them along 2 or more axes/dimensions. You can discover new areas for exploration (e.g. quadrant 4). Which part of the spiritual-scientific phase space are YOU in? :)
#consciousness
#science
#religion
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By the way if anyone is interested in more info, or prefers reading words over watching my weird videos,
@TheSanctuaryAI
has a blogpost on this subject too:
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Quantum Consciousness thought of the day: Does anyone use ciliates or simple multi-cellular model organisms (e.g. tardigrades / nematodes) to study the role of microtubules in perception-action loops? As opposed to neurons / organoids? Much easier to obtain and look after :)
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I’m interested in collapse mechanisms in QM, especially as they relate to the model of free will in ORCH-OR. There seem to be “two decisions” that the system has to make. 1.) WHEN to collapse, 2.) WHAT state to collapse into. ORCH-OR says that the system doesn’t get to choose
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Quantum Consciousness thought of the day... Killer app for quantum computers could be enabling consciousness in AGI. That would for sure be some quantum advantage.
#agi
#quantumadvantage
#quantumconsciousness
#quantumcomputing
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Does anyone know if there are commonly used "alternate" (non-perceptron) neuron models in AI? Especially interested in bio-inspired ones. The main examples I know of are Numenta's work and Chris Eliasmith's SPAUN project, but there must be more...
#neurons
#ai
#bioinspired
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TIL groups of differentiated organoids put back together are called assembloids. Pretty wild. Image credit: (great paper on this stuff)
#brains
#consciousness
#neurons
#biotech
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Very interested to know if the action of anesthetic can be modeled in this simulation. I'm assuming we can anesthetize C. Elegans IRL...
@StuartHameroff
might know. Can we modulate the behavioral correlates of consciousness in the virtual worm in a way that matches what we see in
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@StuartHameroff
So the qubit is actually a long chain of dimers (which in themselves contain collections of aromatic rings) that wraps / spirals around the whole microtubule, forming a pretty large macroscopic quantum object where all the pi-electron clouds in the rings are all coherently
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@RklbsFan
I am open to it! I think it is the best theory so far, although some recent modifications to it by others make a lot of sense, for example Hartmut Neven's description of the "bing" moment occurring during the formation of superposition (or the sort of middle part of the
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@abemurray
I think it is a very personal question. For me, the thing that convinced me it was interesting was thinking about the fact that conscious first person experience is the only thing I have. I am immersed in it, every second of my life. So knowing whether other things also have that
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@bigthumbsupdude
Because imitation learning, if taken to the limiting case of enough human data, will presumably mimic them (as they will be in the training data set)
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@SingularityNET
Need large numbers of humanoid robots to produce reliable data at scale (or alternatively a scalable simulation of a real humanoid where robot and environment physics are good enough for Sim2Real to work).
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2/2 In both cases you can reduce/collapse the experience to a nearby classical state and use that to "describe" it, but it will be nowhere near as rich a representation as the original. Just an analogy? Or are qualia literally pieces of quantum information experiencing itself?
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@Plinz
I always thought it is a good idea to build HLI first, because we'll learn so much just from that (and we have a known baseline to compare our constructed system to) and then once we've aced HLI, and truly understood it, we can start to expand into the unknown territory of AGI
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Of course one problem with this whole idea is that if there is computation going on inside MTs it is probably strongly coupled to the classical neural outputs too, so it might be difficult to deconvolve these two systems. Observational anecdotal evidence for this: High
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I would love to call this Quantum Darwinism but that already exists (and is a completely different idea). Maybe we could call it Darwinic Quantumism.
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2/2 Note that this isn't an argument for quantum consciousness, only for quantum processes themselves being part of an organism's perception action loop.
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@SingularityNET
You need these data not just to train LBMs (provides a cerebellum equivalent, which is still important) but to do that plus enough additional experiments on other parts of a wider cognitive architecture.
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@SterlingCooley
We can just sprinkle some in anyway. Might make it sparkley. Oh no wait they are smaller than the wavelength of light never mind :(
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@AphasiaAnomic
Although playing devil's advocate, I am also fascinated by how single celled organisms perceive, make decisions and take actions without having any neurons at all. They exhibit very complex behaviors that look quite animal-like at times.
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@henriquecneves
By understanding this, there could be practical applications in machine consciousness in and also improvements is human consciousness technologies. Which I think is exciting new territory.
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@PeterDiamandis
I thought the secret of blue zones was that they weren't keeping census records accurately (or is that a myth) :)
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@TonyD993
@FordP100
There's a lot of questions that physics doesn't answer very well related to choice, free will, agency, uncertainty etc. and quantum mechanical collapse of the waveform seems like the only currently suggested mechanism for such phenomena to "hide" (because we don't yet know what
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@StuartHameroff
Has the Encinitas 2024 conference been officially announced yet? Want to keep updated on this!
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Also check out this paper for an absolutely beautiful microscopic look at a paramecium's cilia:
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@professor_ajay
@shivon
@bengoertzel
@MaxTegmark
@RichardSSutton
@fuelfive
@GaryMarcus
@FutureJurvetson
I think we'll have built "philosophical zombie AGI" by 2030 for sure. The more interesting question is, will we have figured out consciousness by then?
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@VacekvVita
I used to be very much over to the left-hand side of 3 but over the years have moved more into 4 :)
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@TOEwithCurt
What practical technology and engineering advancements might result from a deeper understanding of reality (i.e. if we accept that the Ruliad Space or Hoffman's interface theory of Perception are the correct model of the world)? What could we "builders" do with this knowledge?
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@Spinnaker84
Although that's just my bias. I am open-minded to being proved wrong :) I am most interested in scientific experiments to try to answer that question
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@SterlingCooley
Oh yes, I've been following it since around 2008 (when I worked in quantum computing), but come back to it recently. I guess I meant new in the sense that not many people are talking about it or testing it yet.
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@RklbsFan
I don't know either! But it is a great opportunity for smart science experiments to be designed :)
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@henriquecneves
I'm hopeful for ORCH-OR and similar theories pointing us towards a unification of first person experience (consciousness) with third person science. I admit I am a bit biased in favour of it, but also trying to remain agnostic as a scientist :)
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@cecurry
@hbou
The reason I used the word mimic is that it is possible to have a humanoid robot running autonomously which is indistinguishable from human teleoperation for certain tasks (including tasks where the robot is reactive to the environment with a small amount of generalization, e.g.
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@oblong_office
@DrJimFan
Not quite there yet, but data collection on sandwich activities has occurred :)
Robots Doing Stuff - The Turkey Sandwich Paradox | Ep.3
They teach me how to make sandwiches with leftover
#Thanksgiving
turkey , but not how to eat them.
#ThanksForNothing
Watch the full video:
#RobotsDoingStuff
#GeneralPurposeRobot
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@tejasdkulkarni
Love this! We need better models of neurons, maybe multiple types, and more inspiration from biology in general. So many elegant and interesting processes going on so efficiently. Biological cells are beautiful :)
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@SKurtev
No, it wouldn't explain consciousness. But knowing that they can in principle be used for quantum computing provides more evidence for ORCH-OR than the alternative (no-one being able to find a way use them to support quantum operations). If they can be used to build a QC, we then
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