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“How can we decide if AI systems are conscious? What is a mental state? Are agentic AI systems really agents? Why do agents have goals? Can AI ever be conscious?” @DoctorCochrane joins the debate 👇🏻
I held out as long as I could, but I've now waded into the debate on AI consciousness, offering in my opinion, a pretty fundamental argument. The paper I wrote is very brief so I've published it as a Conversation article. theconversation.com/do-ai-agents-h… 🧵1/5View quoted post on X
Deeply saddened to hear the news that @JohnNosta is no longer with us
“Universities need excellent researchers. The problem begins when research achievement is treated as evidence of general academic excellence, while demonstrated teaching expertise is considered useful but insufficient.”
Without the ability to plan curriculum reform, develop pedagogic research or mentor colleagues, promotion remains out of reach, says a teaching-only academicView quoted post on X
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🎯 “biology is not software
“You cannot debug a malignant microenvironment, epigenetic plasticity, or immune escape mechanisms with a prompt. Biology is messy, non-linear, stochastic, and grounded in messy physical tissue.” 👇🏻
“You cannot debug a malignant microenvironment, epigenetic plasticity, or immune escape mechanisms with a prompt. Biology is messy, non-linear, stochastic, and grounded in messy physical tissue.” 👇🏻
When a Silicon Valley CEO claims AI will "cure all human disease in a decade," they are treating biology as if it were unoptimized Python code waiting for a compiler upgrade.View quoted post on X
As Jeff Leiden and Pascal Soriot pointed out, anyone who has spent thirty minutes at an operating table or a wet lab bench knows the harsh reality: biology is not software.
You cannot debug a malignant microenvironment, epigenetic plasticity, or immune escape mechanisms with a prompt. Biology is messy, non-linear, stochastic, and grounded in messy physical tissue.
