Tag: neuroscience

Can AIs have consciousness?

By Adam Tinworth

To explore the idea of AI consciousness, we first have to understand the human version of it. And, as Anil Seth and Thomas Mueller explore, that’s more complicated than you think.
Augmented realities for lizard brains

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT23 gave us a roadmap to a blended physical and digital world but warned that our brains might not be ready for these new realities.
LJ Rich: The Taste of Music, Synesthesia and the future of AI creativity

By Adam Tinworth

AI is limited by what we train it. But, as people with different perceptions of the world like LJ rich well understand, diversity of perception can trigger creativity.
Anil Seth: Inside-out perceptions

By Adam Tinworth

To shift our perspective, we need tro understand that our perceptions are not reality — and that everybody perceives the world differently. A talk from NEXT23.
Generative AI and the mystery of consciousness

By Adam Tinworth

The rapid advances in AI and large language models (LLMs) are raising questions about sentience and consciousness we can’t yet answer.
Holidays should be the New Normal

By Adam Tinworth

This blog has been on holiday, and come back looking different - and feel refreshed. And we should all be taking more time off, if we want to be really successful in work.
The internet is not infantilising us – unless we let it

By Adam Tinworth

Is the internet reducing us to tribes of attention-seeking, short attention span children? No. But the decisions we make on how we use the internet might be…
What’s NEXT? Cool ideas and stark warnings from the internet

By Adam Tinworth

Five interesting and challenging reads from around the internet - working and designing on mobile, and why our brains are our enemies, sometimes…