California Institute for Machine Consciousness

"I'm very pleased to hear that because I think not many people have been taking that risk of going against the grain. I mean, these ideas are very popular, panpsychist ideas... whether it's outright panpsychism of the kind of you get from Philip Goff or Galen Strawson, or the…

We are looking for a research engineer. This would be a critical role within CIMC, involving an opportunity to shape new research programs spanning our focus areas: formalizing strange loops, self-organizing learners, foundation-model phenomenology, embodied simulation, and…

How would we test for consciousness? @Plinz and @louviq interview our scientific advisor Christoph von der Malsburg. youtu.be/PDo0tnJPQSI

Is AI becoming conscious? (Recent presentation at MIT Imagination in Action) youtube.com/watch?v=rzNOtA…

What if we had bigger brains? Inaugural Salon at the @internetarchive where @stephen_wolfram and @Plinz discussed what it would be like to transcend the boundaries of our brains. youtu.be/-G1SdsRXL7k

Michael Levin says all intelligence is collective, and consciousness may not be limited to brains. He's building translator interfaces to link humans, xenobots, AI-driven systems, even mathematical objects into shared minds. “This is now quite doable.” Experimental. Testable.…

I'm looking forward to working with @Plinz, @newtonlaw, the CIMC Board, our amazing team of advisors, and the rest of the really excellent CIMC crew to help enable them to make serious progress on this top scientific and philosophical question: what is consciousness and can we…

Wow!! 🎉🎉 I'm super happy for both CIMC and for Jim! Jim is a fantastic chairman (and I've seen it first hand).

We’re deeply honored to welcome @jim_rutt as Chairman of CIMC’s Board. Jim has a rich, storied past, which led him from MIT to pioneering roles in the development of the internet -- serving as CEO of Network Solutions, CTO of Thomson Reuters; and later, as Chairman of the Santa…

Hi Brian, video is currently being edited and should be published in the next couple of weeks ! Working on a substack post that will include all keynotes and discussions that happened during our launch event: link to get notified cimcai.substack.com

Grateful to witness the launch of @CIMCAI—a pivotal moment in the evolution of machine consciousness —and to tag along with @Plinz + team to @EdgeEsmeralda. So much fun. Even more excited to shape the computational modeling of #PerceptualDiversity together, laying the groundwork…

Last week we hosted 3 days of events to mark our official launch. Huge thanks to everyone who joined - your presence and support means a lot; and to all teams, beings, and supporting organizations who contributed to making this event happen. @Plinz @newtonlaw @louviq @zhen9436…

Very excited for Joscha Bach's three-hour deep dive talk today at Edge Esmeralda. Especially exciting on the heels of the amazing @CIMCAI launch this past weekend. Deep dive straight into how we can make the GPUs wake up ☀️ @Plinz @nodes_0 @JoinEdgeCity @EdgeEsmeralda