Minter Dialogue Episode #357

Dr Mark Sagar, a double Academy Award winner, is the CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines and director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. WIth his team, Mark is looking to bring technology to life, pioneering in the creation of autonomously animated virtual humans. In this conversation with Mark, we discuss people's relationship with machines, the challenges of making emotions appear in a machine, we explore the way forward in AI and the stumbling blocks of sentient AI.

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