Manuel Blum: Towards a Conscious AI

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Manuel Blum explores computational frameworks for machine consciousness. A lecture teaching formal models of computation applied to cognitive questions.

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A 78-minute video from UC Berkeley EECS: “Manuel Blum: Towards a Conscious AI”.

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