Is AI Conscious? The 239th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 135 minutes

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In this 239th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.In this week’s episode, we discuss AI, specifically how Grok responded to the prompt “image of Cartesian crisis,” whether AI is conscious, and whether it makes art. What is art, and are humans required to make it, or do search and memory suffice? Not art: the rendering of the national anthem at the Democratic National Co...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 238 is it?
0:13.0	9.
0:14.0	239.
0:15.0	239.
0:16.0	Prime it is.
0:18.0	It may or may not be the first Dark Horse podcast of the Conscious AI era. are betting against but there's an argument to be made and we will make it
0:28.4	What an argument for consciousness in the or the dawning of consciousness as of this week well we'll see we'll see what
0:38.1	You're talking I'll lay out the argument you can you can you can stand up for those who think me crazy no I just like this is a total
0:44.8	I have no idea what you're talking about well I'm not I don't have a position as to
0:48.6	whether or not I did or did not happen this week I have no idea this is coming right
0:52.1	this is not. Right.
0:53.0	This is not what we talked about talking about.
0:54.0	Are you the conscious AI of which you speak?
0:56.0	I can either confirm or deny.
0:58.0	No, you wouldn't be able to be able to...
1:00.0	That's actually the beginning of a fairly decent poem that I would want more time to work out.
1:03.4	Are you the conscious AI of which you speak?
1:05.6	No, no.
1:06.6	I am neither the conscious AI.
1:08.6	I have now lost it, but you know, easy coming.
1:12.0	Yeah, see that proves you're not AI.
1:13.3	A I wouldn't have lost it. But you just said? No, AI is losing it. I can prove that.
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