Consciousness, reasoning and the philosophy of AI with Murray Shanahan

In this episode, Hannah is once again joined by Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, for a philosophical deep dive on AI. They explore everything from consciousness and metacognition in animals, to symbolic AI and neural networks. Murray also shares insights into his involvement with the film 'Ex Machina' and discusses the idea of reasoning, anthropomorphism, and the future of AI. Further reading / listening: Toward the future, S1 Ep 7: https://youtu.be/yf31XT1G1RQ?si=6mAEsQhKwKPWk9oH Papers by Murray: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=00bnGpAAAAAJ&hl=en Timecodes 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Ex Machina 03:28 John McCarthy & Coining "AI" 05:45 Symbolic AI 09:43 AI Reasoning 14:42 Turing Test 18:10 Alternative Tests 21:58 Anthropomorphism 26:42 Embodied AI 28:17 AI Consciousness 34:00 Octopus Analogy 37:48 Prompt Engineering 39:40 Exotic Mind-Like Entities 40:44 Conclusion ___ Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry Series Producer: Dan Hardoon Editor: Rami Tzabar Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif Music composition: Eleni Shaw Audio engineer: Richard Courtice Production Manager: Dan Lazard Video Studio Production: Nicholas Duke Video Director: Bernardo Resende Video Editor: Alex Baro Cayetano, Bilal Merhi Audio Engineer: Perry Rogantin Camera and Lighting Operator: Robert Messere Production Coordination: Zoey Roberts, Sarah Ellen Morton Visual Identity and Design: Rob Ashley Commissioned by Google DeepMind ___ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/