Lenore Blum
@BlumLenore
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60 years ago, 7/30/61, and we’re still going strong! 😍 That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind. #neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML @cstheory @MIT
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Wow! Thanks @PRISM_Machines —Will and Calum— for including me in such an awesome group of thinkers on machine #consciousness. 🙏
We're celebrating six months of Exploring Machine Consciousness! We're honoured to have had such brilliant guests so far, as Will Millership and Calum Chace chat with some of the leading thinkers in the field of artificial consciousness. All episodes: https://t.co/dDgmtUkpTB
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And here are 2 more short clips: https://t.co/tnrYm80aLM (2 types of consciousness in CTM) https://t.co/CeDtqOTLam (math's effectiveness)
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🎙️ New #podcast: AI Consciousness is Inevitable: The Conscious Turing Machine with @BlumLenore. With the speed of change in #AI systems, Lenore believes that AI consciousness is inevitable. Listen or watch: https://t.co/ivZhNc51Io
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Ii had great fun talking with @WilMillership and Calum Chace about the #Conscious Turing Machine (CTM).
🎙️ New #podcast: AI Consciousness is Inevitable: The Conscious Turing Machine with @BlumLenore. With the speed of change in #AI systems, Lenore believes that AI consciousness is inevitable. Listen or watch: https://t.co/ivZhNc51Io
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Join us for @drmichaellevin's talk on Wednesday! Context: https://t.co/fsPBIs5shC To join, please register here: https://t.co/stF77VvIG9 This talk is co-organized in collaboration with #AMCS. A huge thank you to @BlumLenore for co-organizing this talk! 🙏 #ConSci
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Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in November amid the federal government shutdown. I imagine at least 20 million are MAGA. How will Trump, MAGA respond? Check out this article:
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Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in November amid the federal government shutdown. And it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will step in to find the...
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This moment isn’t just about one man’s greed, one man’s corruption or one man’s contempt for our Constitution. It’s about the wealthiest people on earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy & politics to enrich themselves at the expense of working families.
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"I hear very few people are gonna be there" -Donald Trump, 10/15/25
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." https://t.co/QFwLJrFY6C
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Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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Happy Birthday to our dear friend and colleague, Dana Scott!
Happy Birthday Dana Stewart Scott! Scott received the 1976 #ACMTuringAward along with Michael O. Rabin, for their joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines. https://t.co/EF1PrOzDLZ
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Never as proud to be an @MIT alum (along with my husband, son and daughter-in-law)! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
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The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse.
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"... In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of @MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
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I just received this email from @MIT President Sally Kornbluth.Never more proud of being an MIT alumna! https://t.co/NVdV33xWjQ From the email: " In our view,America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence.."
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I just received this email from @MIT President Sally Kornbluth. Never more proud of being an @MIT alumna! https://t.co/NVdV33xWjQ
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Even during the war, we never forget the tragedy of Babyn Yar, the tragedy of the Holocaust. This tragedy was so immense because the world was too slow and silently watched as the fascists carried out their aggression. The tragedy of Babyn Yar is an example of why today the world
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"... callous disregard for the rights of others; unethical and antisocial behaviors. ...Psychopathy is the most dangerous of the personality disorders." From the FBI website: An Important Forensic Concept for the 21st Century
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Understanding the mind of psychopaths and assessing their personality and behavioral traits can help authorities design more effective interviewing strategies.
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From the FBI website: "The term psychopathy refers to a personality disorder that includes: deception; manipulation; irresponsibility; impulsivity; stimulation seeking; poor behavioral controls; shallow affect; lack of empathy,guilt,or remorse; sexual promiscuity;..."
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Interesting article from the FBI website: "Psychopathy is the most dangerous of the personality disorders." Psychopathy: An Important Forensic Concept for the 21st Century
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Understanding the mind of psychopaths and assessing their personality and behavioral traits can help authorities design more effective interviewing strategies.
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This is actually a good statement from Bernie Sanders Worth the watch
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Hyde Park Academy students got hands-on with #AI, ethics, and #computerscience through a new partnership with TTIC. The result? Deep discussions, stronger critical thinking, and inspired essays. Read more: https://t.co/0nF0Ne4y3P
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Happy Birthday, Avi Wigderson! Wigderson received the 2023 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. https://t.co/b9VG6w6csG
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