Schmidhuber revisits his 2016 panel with Chalmers and Kahneman on artificial consciousness
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-10-05
Jürgen Schmidhuber quote-retweets his own 2016 appearance at an NYC AI conference, where he explained artificial consciousness, world models, predictive coding, and science as data compression in under 10 minutes. The panel was organized by David Chalmers and included Daniel Kahneman, Susan Schneider, Gary Marcus, and Jaan Tallin.
He ties the ideas back to his 1990 work on planning and reinforcement learning with recurrent world models and artificial curiosity, which he says offers a simple explanation of consciousness and self-awareness, and notes these points are all reflected in his recurrent neural controllers and neural world models dating to 1990.
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