
Guest
Joscha Bach
Executive director, CIMC
Developed cognitive architectures and leads CIMC's research into machine consciousness and models of the mind.
Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Joscha Bach (Executive director, CIMC) talking, from 2 interviews on Machine Learning Street Talk and Minus One, the latest published Nov 2, 2026.
What Joscha Bach said
Why Consciousness Might Not Be Hard At All (Joscha Bach)
2 moments · 16 min
- 31:51
Consciousness may be a learning algorithm for animal brains
“might be a biological learning algorithm, a training algorithm for animal brains”
at 33:17 - 41:01
Vision models can converge on the same features
“it really depends on the structure of the problem that you are trying to learn.”
at 42:02
- 31:51
AGI, Sci-Fi, & Storytelling | Neal Stephenson, Ken Liu, Cyan Banister, & Joscha Bach
1 moment · 3 min
- 10:20
Joscha Bach says AI advanced through scale, not a master algorithm
“We didn't think that the answer to AGI would be use more compute and more data.”
at 12:08
- 10:20