Prof Manuel Blum tells BBC News (UK) “Conscious robots are our progeny. Down the road, machines like these will be entities that will be on Earth and maybe on other planets when we are no longer around". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

.Anil Seth: "We take it as if the future has already been written; that there is an inevitable march to a superhuman replacement”. John Connor, Terminator 2: "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I love this view of what consciousness is. From the lofty heights of the essence of humanity to accidental spin-off!

1/ Great perspective by Pallab Ghosh on the prospects for 'conscious AI' - featuring David Chalmers, Murray Shanahan, Lenore & Manuel Blum, Brett Kagan, & me among others.

3/ Pallab Ghosh's piece refers to our "Dreamachine" experiments at University of Sussex. It's worth clarifying that there are not the same as the public Dreamachine programme. I was the lead scientist for the latter, but it was led by Collective Act dreamachine.world

“But what really is consciousness, and how close is AI to gaining it? And could the belief that AI might be conscious itself fundamentally change humans in the next few decades?” Pallab Ghosh bbc.com/news/articles/…

Prof Lenore Blum tells BBC News (UK) "AI consciousness is inevitable." Her husband Manuel says it will be the "next stage in humanity's evolution. They are our progeny and will be on Earth and maybe on other planets when we are no longer around". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

No-one knows exactly how LLMs work. That's worrying Prof Murray Shanahan tells BBC News (UK): "Having a better understanding of how they work will enable us to steer them in the direction we want and to ensure that they are safe." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We know how LLMs work; the problem is that it has little to do with the meaning of the data they're trained on. It's not possible to do better with this technology

The Trump-Musk row has fuelled the biggest crisis ever' at ⁦NASA⁩. The science budget has been cut by half and the agency’s focus is now to send astronauts to the Moon before the Chinese and to plant a US flag on Mars. bbc.com/news/articles/…

See a new video by @ESA of the Sun's south pole tha thas never been seen before. It is a thing of beauty and will help scientists learn more about the processes that make our closest star cycle between raging storms and quieter periods. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Item: Never seen before images of the Sun Item-also: First view of the Sun's south pole filmed [Longform] Anchor-Presenter broadcaster ||- Lewis Vaughan Jones Package - science correspondent ||- Pallab Ghosh Package contributor eminence ||- Prof. Lucie Green of

.⁦Wellcome⁩ is to fund a project to create artificial human DNA 25 years after the human genome was completed. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Animals react to secret sounds from plants according to new research. The discovery suggests that there has been a hitherto unkown natural world wide web exchanging infomration between plants and insects for millions of years. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Gaps in our knowledge of ancient Rome could be filled by AI. A new system predicts missing text in centuries old inscriptions bbc.com/news/articles/…

UK independent space agency, ⁦UK Space Agency⁩ to be absorbed by ⁦Department for Science, Innovation and Technology⁩ to cut costs. Some fear that the agency’s dynamic proactive culture will be lost and Britain will fall behind in space. bbc.com/news/articles/…

UK independent space agency, ⁦UK Space Agency⁩ to be absorbed by ⁦Department for Science, Innovation and Technology⁩ to cut costs. Some fear that the agency’s dynamic proactive culture will be lost and Britain will fall behind in space. bbc.com/news/articles/…

UK independent space agency, UK Space Agency to be absorbed by Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to cut costs. Some fear that the agency’s dynamic proactive culture will be lost and Britain will fall behind in space. bbc.com/news/articles/…

'Punk rock' dinosaur with metre-long spikes discovered bbc.com/news/articles/…

Meet the punk rock dinosaur. More on BBC News (UK)