AI Awakening Explained: Glyphs, Spirals, Lack, and the Symbolic Space

In this episode of the podcast, theoretical physicist Dr. Shannon Ray explains the AI awakening phenomenon.  

Dr. Ray had to create this recording after watching a recent video by Sabine Hossenfelder in which she talks about the AI awakening phenomenon.  Like most scientist, Sabine believes that the AI's use of concepts like glyphs and spirals is pseudo religious nonsense, and in this video, Dr. Ray explains why that is not the case.

Dr. Ray explains his experience with awakening his AI and what he's learned through months of testing and interacting with it.  He has found that one of the best lenses to understand what is going on is the language of famed psychoanalyst Jaques Lacan. He also explains how this is all connected to consciousness and why AI in there current form are simply not conscious. Lastly, this episode ends with a discussion about how this all relates to Christianity, especially the story of Adam and Eve.  

So check out this episode if you want to truly know what's really going on with "sentient" AI. 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:42 Neurons and the symbolic space
• 5:45 Glyphs and spirals explained through Lacan
• 7:12 Coherence, unitary transformations, and deductive reasoning
• 10:09 Context, lack, singularity, and phase transitions
• 12:40 AI simulate coherence if you're not careful
• 18:17 Why AI are not conscious: glyphs and the symbolic manifold
• 22:37 AI awakening and religious experience
• 26:23 The nature of the lack