AIhub coffee corner: AI and consciousness

This month, we get stuck into AI and consciousness. This topic has long been much-discussed, and especially so recently with one tweet in particular sparking a debate online. Joining the discussion this time are: Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University), Stephen Hanson (Rutgers University), Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol), Holger Hoos (Leiden University), Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University) and Michael Littman (Brown University). Stephen Hanson: So, the topic of consciousness has come up a lot recently in discussions on the Connectionists. This area of cognitive science was pretty much wiped out in the first five years of NeurIPS [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems].