🧠 Can AI become self-aware and conscious like humans? The SFI working group “The Active Self” organized by Nihat Ay and his team explore how embodied intelligence, where the body and environment shape cognition, could lead to truly intelligent AI systems.

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One thing I like about Paul Verhoeven films is how he doesn't go woke with the messaging: Robocop is a kickass robot cop who cleans up Detroit, Starship Troopers is about how we blast the shit out of alien bugs, Total Recall is about how VR AI is amazing

Turkey backs away from foreign currency protected savings accounts

https://on.ft.com/3OKHZ7a

Though from 2013, this blog post by Macroman is increasingly more relevant given the world burning up bit by bit and the summer of 2023. I wonder what happened to him, used to have many interesting things to say: http://macro-man.blogspot.com/2013/07/tmm-launch-atacama-etf.html

Ahh finally, starting from scratch, a world free of Elon.