Pallab Ghosh
@BBCPallab
Science Correspondent for BBC News. Also on @pallabg.bsky.social
I love this view of what consciousness is. From the lofty heights of the essence of humanity to accidental spin-off!
⁖ “consciousness is at best a by‑product of a general problem solving procedure.” x.com/attentionmech/…
Gaps in our knowledge of ancient Rome could be filled by AI. A new system predicts missing text in centuries old inscriptions bbc.com/news/articles/…
Animals react to secret sounds from plants according to new research. The discovery suggests that there has been a hitherto unkown natural world wide web exchanging infomration between plants and insects for millions of years. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
.@wellcometrust is to fund a project to create artificial human DNA 25 years after the human genome was completed. bbc.com/news/articles/…
Item: Never seen before images of the Sun Item-also: First view of the Sun's south pole filmed [Longform] Anchor-Presenter broadcaster ||- @LVaughanJones Package - science correspondent ||- @BBCPallab Package contributor eminence ||- @Dr_Lucie of…
See a new video by @ESA of the Sun's south pole tha thas never been seen before. It is a thing of beauty and will help scientists learn more about the processes that make our closest star cycle between raging storms and quieter periods. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
The Trump-Musk row has fuelled the biggest crisis ever' at @NASA. The science budget has been cut by half and the agency’s focus is now to send astronauts to the Moon before the Chinese and to plant a US flag on Mars. bbc.com/news/articles/…
We know how LLMs work; the problem is that it has little to do with the meaning of the data they're trained on. It's not possible to do better with this technology
No-one knows exactly how LLMs work. That's worrying Prof @mpshanahan tells @BBCNews: "Having a better understanding of how they work will enable us to steer them in the direction we want and to ensure that they are safe." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
No-one knows exactly how LLMs work. That's worrying Prof @mpshanahan tells @BBCNews: "Having a better understanding of how they work will enable us to steer them in the direction we want and to ensure that they are safe." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Prof @BlumLenore tells @BBCNews "AI consciousness is inevitable." Her husband Manuel says it will be the "next stage in humanity's evolution. They are our progeny and will be on Earth and maybe on other planets when we are no longer around". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
“But what really is consciousness, and how close is AI to gaining it? And could the belief that AI might be conscious itself fundamentally change humans in the next few decades?” @BBCPallab bbc.com/news/articles/…
3/ @BBCPallab's piece refers to our "Dreamachine" experiments at @SussexUni. It's worth clarifying that there are not the same as the public @Drea_m_achine programme. I was the lead scientist for the latter, but it was led by Collective Act dreamachine.world
1/ Great perspective by @BBCPallab on the prospects for 'conscious AI' - featuring @davidchalmers42, Murray Shanahan, Lenore & Manuel Blum, Brett Kagan, & me among others.
.@anilkseth: "We take it as if the future has already been written; that there is an inevitable march to a superhuman replacement”. John Connor, Terminator 2: "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
.@anilkseth: "We take it as if the future has already been written; that there is an inevitable march to a superhuman replacement”. John Connor, Terminator 2: "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Prof Manuel Blum tells @BBCNews “Conscious robots are our progeny. Down the road, machines like these will be entities that will be on Earth and maybe on other planets when we are no longer around". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Could so brain cells grown in a lab, called organoids, become conscious? @ANeuroExplorer tells @BBCNews that it’s possible, but possible organoid overlords could easily be defeated by pouring bleach on them. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
This reminds me of a line from Terminator 2: Judgement Day by John Connor "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
"We take it as if the future has already been written;…an inevitable march to a superhuman replacement," he says. "We did not have these conversations enough with the rise of social media…But with AI, it is not too late. We can decide what we want."🤞🤞🤞
The people who believe that AI might become conscious bbc.com/news/articles/… @BBCPallab @bbcnews
📰News Item of the Year Award #ABSWawards 📣Meet the #finalists 🎉🎉🎉 👉 @SquigglyVolcano @QuantaMagazine 🔗zurl.co/ZMluE "Original and unique voice." 👉 @BBCPallab @BBC 🔗zurl.co/f9NCI "Making complex science interesting." zurl.co/gWdMb
Are AI systems on the verge of becoming conscious? If so, what should we do? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…