Good news everyone! I have just been made an editor of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence @agisociety.bsky.social

happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :) link: osf.io/preprints/th...

happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :) link: osf.io/preprints/th...

machine consciousness and @ricardsole.bsky.social's liquid vs solid brains from my interview with machine learning street talk. watch the full video on yt: youtu.be/K18Gmp2oXIM?... and spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

my machine learning street talk interview just dropped. thumbnail suggests it might melt your brain but i think you’ll be fine. probably. yt: www.youtube.com/watch?si=GMB... spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

Brillant talk by @mitibennett.bsky.social at AGI on Stack Theory based on his fantastic PhD thesis How to build a conscious machine osf.io/preprints/th... Over 20k views 😎 Way to go Michael - up to the stars 🌟 !

The dream of any supervisor : To see the name of your student coining a new method / approach 😎 When the shout out comes from a leading expert in the field is even more rewarding Way to go @mitibennett.bsky.social !

Honored to have presented my research on @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's YouTube channel! m.youtube.com/watch?v=boTA...

waiting for my thesis to be examined

Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast

hacker news found my thesis

New preprint. My thesis. Comments very welcome. Abstract below. Link in comment.

How did complex cognition evolve from cells to mammalian brains? What are the key evolutionary events that led to intelligent agents? What about the emergence of AI? Check out this superb book by Max Bennett @manlius.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

Cooked a new paper 😎 The No Body Problem - Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy to co-edit this Special Issue in Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Sociey B ! We have a rich line up of invited contributors from all over the world and all career stages 😎✨ Watch this space !

It is done.

Today is the day.

The deadline approaches. Some amazing submissions this year, keep it up! 21 hours left until end of day, 12th of May, anywhere on earth. There is still time to write another paper! @agisociety.bsky.social

they told me my work not well known, and I just need to get more eyeballs on it

Thesis continues. Moar pages!

The pagecount continues to grow. The final chapter is now well and truly under way.

My thesis spontaneously grew 4 more pages this morning. Soon it will be done. Just a few more.

This year's Mathematical Consciousness Science conference, Models of Consciousness 6 (#MoC6) will take place in Sapporo, Japan. 👉 You're cordially invited to join us! Kudos to this year's main organizer, Robert Prentner! amcs-community.org/events/moc6-... #consci

Soon it will be complete, and I will do nothing but play videogames for a week. Very, very soon.

The 18th Annual AGI Conference has received a lot of engagement, including an exciting collaboration with members of the AMCS and the consciousness research community! To accommodate, the @agisociety.bsky.social has extended the submission deadline to May 12, 2025. agi-conf.org/2025/call-fo...

barry the portia spider lives in the vents on my monitor. comes out to play with my mouse pointer when i'm working

Do you research AGI, AI, ML, philosophy of AI or related topics? Please consider submitting a paper to this year's AGI conference! Links below for the CFP [Discord linked in bio].

i keep returning to this. it has depth. the elephant is sad. there is no elephant, just a shell of what an elephant once was.

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

Biological neurons in a commercially available computer. #consci corticallabs.com/cl1.html

Are cells like small liquid "brains"? Cells can gather and process complex sets of signals and respond in adaptive ways. How close are they to standard neural networks? Here's the seminal 1995 paper by Dennis Bray on cells as computers nature.com/articles/376...

If you research AI, ML, philosophy of AI, cognitive architectures or related topics please consider submitting a paper to this year's AGI conference, this time in Iceland. Proceedings published by Springer. It's an amazing conference and community! [link in comment]

If you research AI, ML, philosophy of AI, cognitive architectures or related topics please consider submitting a paper to this year's AGI conference, this time in Iceland. Proceedings published by Springer. It's an amazing conference and community! [link in comment]

Evaluating animal consciousness | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Call for papers for the 2025 AGI conference! It's an amazing community. Papers span ML, AI, phil. of AI and so on. Proceedings published by Springer Nature in LNCS. It has run for 18yrs now. Always has an amazing lineup of speakers. CFP: agi-conf.org/2025/ Discord: discord.gg/yyR6zK8s

What separates life from death? Mary Shelley once wrote: "To understand life, we first need to understand death". In this movie, we see how a single-celled organism dies. The same matter in both pictures. It is not the same state or the same integrated complexity. youtube.com/watch?v=4bj6...

She was right ! And I would add : « to understand life we first need to understand death AND birth » This is fascinating work 👇🏼

inside me are two wolves, and they spend all of their time not writing my thesis

once upon a time I Newsweek asked me some questions

One attempt to do this is the work by Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social and co-workers Sean Welsh & @annaciaunica.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14545

At the Models of Consciousness conference in Bamberg last year a bunch of us played music. Here’s me (with thanks to Henry Shevlin for capturing it)

I do like the notion that "death grounds meaning" in the abstract! I'll have a look. My feeling is that consciousness makes our presence in the world, and the presence of our surroundings, awfully "present" to us. If it's arguably an illusion, it's also an effective trick for Nature to play on us.

Super proud of my PhD student @MiTiBennett who just won a grant to do fundamental research in AI! 😎 Well done 👏 ! 🎉 Check out his papers ! 👇🏼

Since I'm new to Bluesky I thought I'd share this paper of mine that was published a couple of months ago: osf.io/preprints/os...

wooh! i just won a grant to do fundamental research into quantum agi!

larry the fish flopped ineffectually on the conveyor belt as the eldritch horror bore him into its maw. poor larry. his mother always warned him if he hung out with trash it would come back to bite him.

Can a "theory of everything" explain complexity from atoms and molecules to societies? The answer is negative, and even within physics, emergent, irreducible phenomena exist. Check this @pnas.org paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social co-founder David Pines and RB Laughlin pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...