<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">When:    </font></font></b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Wednesday, April 24th at <b><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:30 AM CT</font></b></font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:    </b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b></span><span class="gmail_default">T</span></font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">alk will be giv</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">en </span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold"><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold"> </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">at</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                     TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                     5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Virtually:  </b>via Panopto<b> </b>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3c9f9fc5-5c91-405f-8ecb-b109010c39ec" target="_blank">Livestream</a>) </span></font><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Who:      <span class="gmail_default"></span>   </font></font></b>Lenore Blum and Manuel Blum, Carnegie Mellon University</font></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif"><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Title:        </b>A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness and Artificial General Intelligence</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p></p><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Abstract:  </b> The quest to understand consciousness, once the purview of philosophers and theologians, is now actively pursued by scientists of many stripes. We have defined the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) for the purpose of investigating a Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) approach to consciousness. For this, we have hewn to the TCS demand for simplicity and understandability. The CTM is consequently and intentionally a simple machine. It is not a model of the brain, though its design has greatly benefited - and continues to benefit - from cognitive neuroscience, in particular the global (neuronal) workspace theory. Although it is developed to understand consciousness, the CTM offers a thoughtful and novel guide to the creation of an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). For example, the CTM has an enormous number of powerful processors, some with specialized expertise, others unspecialized but poised to develop an expertise. For whatever problem must be dealt with, the CTM has an excellent way to utilize those processors that have the required knowledge, ability, and time to work on the problem, even if it, the CTM, is not aware of which of the processors these<br>may be. </font></div><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">About the Speakers</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lenore Blum </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(PhD, MIT) is Distinguished Career Professor Emerita of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and Visiting Chair Professor at Peking U. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lenore</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">’s research, from her early work in model theory and differential fields (logic and algebra) to her work in developing a theory of computation and complexity over the reals (mathematics and computer science) has focused on merging seemingly unrelated areas. Her book, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Complexity and Real Computation,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> written with Felipe Cucker, Mike Shub and Steve Smale, develops a theoretical basis for scientific computation in continuous domains akin to the Turing-based theory for discrete domains. Her current research with Manuel and Avrim Blum, inspired by theoretical computer science and major advances in cognitive neuroscience, lays designs for a conscious AI.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">Lenore is internationally known for her work in increasing the participation of girls and women in STEM and is proud that CMU has gender parity in its undergraduate CS program. Over the years, she has been active in the mathematics community: as President of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Chair of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Deputy Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), and as Inaugural and current President of the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS). She is a Fellow of AAAS, AMS, AWM.   </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="mailto:lblum@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">lblum@cs.cmu.edu</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">            </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Manuel Blum </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(PhD, MIT) is Bruce Nelson Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Professor Emeritus of EECS at UC Berkeley, and Visiting Chair Professor at Peking U. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Manuel</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> has been motivated to understand the mind/body problem since he was in second grade when his teacher told his mom she should not expect him to get past high school. As an undergrad at MIT, he spent a year studying Freud and then apprenticed himself to the great anti-Freud neurophysiologist, Dr. Warren S. McCulloch, who became his intellectual mentor. When he told Warren (McCulloch) and Walter (Pitts) that he wanted to study consciousness, he was told in no uncertain terms that he was verboten to do so - and why (there was no fMRI at the time). As a graduate student, he asked and got Marvin Minsky to be his thesis advisor. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Manuel is one of the founders of complexity theory, a Turing Award winner, and has mentored many in the field who have chartered new directions ranging from computational learning, cryptography, zero knowledge, interactive proofs, proof checkers, and human computation. He is a Fellow of AAAS</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:sub">1</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, AAAS</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:sub">2</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, NAS, NAE.  </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><a href="mailto:mblum@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">mblum@cs.cmu.edu</font></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif">Full Disclosure: Lenore and Manuel have a very special relation with TTI-C.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></p></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;font-weight:700">Hos</span><b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px">t:<u><a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" target="_blank"> David McAllester</a></u></span></b></font></font></p></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></span></div></div></div></div>