Designed Mind 2017 @designedmind17
Reflections on the function, evolution and implementation of consciousness. designedmind.org Edinburgh, Scotland Joined January 2017-
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Last day for Animal-AI (deadline midnight AoE)! This is the only time we'll see AI performance when experiencing our tasks for the first time. Congratulations to all our brave contestants embracing the challenge! $22,000 in prizes left! Details: github.com/beyretb/Animal…
Craik-Cornsweet illusion. Left image:"light" regions (hand, face, shirt) are identical to "dark" background. Dark/light edges induce "filling in" of brightness; on the right a line around edges reduces the effect. Old but gold (I'm making slides). Paper: tiny.cc/iaggaz
@rolyperera @keithfrankish @ThomasMetzinger Lots of interesting stuff in this issue! imprint.co.uk/table-of-conte… (For instance, Are There Degrees of Self-Consciousness? by @raphamilliere also very much appeals to me.)
Tomorrow at around 9AM UTC/GMT I'll be recording an interview about consciousness with @onemorebrown. I think it will go out live too, and I'll tweet the link when I have it.
We're thrilled to be hosting @danieldennett on 18 June as he delivers this year's Annual Margaret Boden Lecture!! You can register to attend here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-margaret…
My new paper with @krysdolega, "Bayesian Frugality and the Representation of Attention", is now available in a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies edited by the @designedmind17 team, @rolyperera, Takuya Niikawa, and Max Jones. ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp…
Delighted to see this Special Issue out and very happy to have contributed with @AnnaCiaunica! Congrats to @rolyperera and the other editors for the amazing job!
Congratulations Roly and to all of the editors putting together this amazing SI. Very happy to have a paper here with @lauracrucianel1 !
Looking forward to taking part in this. Come along if you can! --> World leading academic Daniel Dennett to give prestigious lecture - reading.ac.uk/news-and-event… @UniofReading @Christakou
This competition will test how close we are to creating machines that have common sense. trib.al/9gHPdLz
"The 21st century is in dire need of a Turing test for consciousness" nautil.us/blog/heres-how… via @brianga11agher
According to the journal proofs will be sent to authors in the next few days and we're on target for an April special issue!
Final versions of the 11 contributions to our Journal of Consciousness Studies special issue just sent to the journal. Only a couple of months to go now..
Excellent essay by @danieldennett . Great quote from Norbert Wiener: “In the long run, there is no distinction between arming ourselves and arming our enemies.” wired.com/story/will-ai-…
We are hiring several engineers and researchers to build autonomous agent systems at Araya. DM me if you are interested.
4/4 Postdoctoral research fellowship available in Cognitive Neuroscience at @sacklercentre @SussexUni. Closing date March 11th: sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/res…
3/4 Postdoctoral research fellowship available in Clinical Psychological Disorders of Consciousness at @sacklercentre @SussexUni. Closing date March 11th: sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/res…
2/4 Postdoctoral research fellowship available in Computational Psychiatry and Consciousness Science, at @sacklercentre @SussexUni. Closing date March 11th. sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/res…
1/4 The @sacklercentre is hiring! We have 3 available postdoctoral fellowship positions, in (i) computational psychiatry (ii) clinical consciousness science, and (iii) cognitive neuroscience. Details in next tweets. Closing date 11/03. @theASSC .@CIFAR_News .@SussexUni
Introducing the Animal-AI Olympics, a new kind of AI competition. Instead of providing a problem to solve, we provide an arena in which we will test for simple cognitive abilities using experiments inspired by the animal cognition literature. More details: animalaiolympics.com
I am thrilled to have been elected and grateful to the entire @theASSC community for providing such a consistently exciting venue to think about the hardest questions. Thank you @PatrickHaggard for your outstanding term!
Congratulations to Axel @axelcleeremans on being elected as next President of the @theASSC ! Well-deserved recognition of Axel's contribution to the Consciousness field.
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