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DeepMind CEO’s Former Mentor: AI is Intelligent, Not Conscious
Date Posted:
January 26, 2026
Date Recorded:
January 23, 2026
CBMM Speaker(s):
Tomaso Poggio - All Captioned Videos
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Description:
If robots experience real pain, are they conscious?
I spoke with Tomaso Poggio about future of AGI, AI's impact on human society, the signs of sentience in AI, and AI predictions. Tomaso Poggio is one of the founders of computational neuroscience and mentor of Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, and Christof Koch, a prominent neuroscientist who proposed the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness.
Is AI just a tool, and even if so, will this tool become better than humans? AI Gemini and ChatGPT passed the Turing test, but does that mean they're conscious or just intelligent?
Paper by Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum mentioned in the video: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17101
More about Tomaso: https://mcgovern.mit.edu/profile/tomaso-poggio/