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Is This Reality? VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness - Part 1
Season 1 · Episode 959

Is This Reality? VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness - Part 1

Intelligence Squared

June 19, 202342m 27s

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Show Notes

Throughout the year, AI development has taken significant strides. We are living in a society that is becoming increasingly reliant on digital technology, which soon could be flooded with computer-generated content. As technology advances, it will become harder to distinguish between the virtual and the real, eventually almost impossible. Is this a cause for concern?


In part one of this partnership with the Swedish publishing house and ideas forum Fri Tanke we hear from keynote speaker David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy at New York University.


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This event took place in May 2023 in Stockholm.


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