Just a quick post with a few media mentions about Nirvanic you might find interesting.
In the Meta Mind Podcast — Can AI “Feel” Or Not? — we looked at the quest to build conscious machines. We played with a fascinating idea: what if a domestic robot could actually have experiences—and care for you? Check it out.
"Only a conscious being can care for another conscious being. If we want technology to care about us or care for us, it's going to have to be conscious."
HackerNoon, a grassroots tech publication, also just dropped an article about us. Their title definitely grabbed our attention:
“A Canadian Scientist Is Trying to Inject Souls in AI, and It Looks Like It Could Work.”
Now, we don’t use terms like “souls” in our tech work nor “ghosts in the machine.” 😀 But we get why journalists go for the headline pop. Consciousness and free will are profound topics. The journalist did a great job digging into the philosophy behind consciousness research in general and quantum models in detail. It even includes a mini crash-course in quantum mechanics.
We also spoke with Tracy Poizner on her Limitless podcast about the philosophical and ethical implications of AI systems that can think, feel, and make intuitive decisions. I really enjoyed this conversation because we got to talk about some of the more human aspects of how we interact with technology.
“We’ve designed AI to mimic human emotions, but true consciousness is deeper than mimicry—it requires experience.”
The science begins
We’re now taking our first steps toward understanding how conscious decision making might work in embodied AI systems. Our research involves designing small-scale experiments with simple robots to detect potential signatures of quantum agency. We’re far from building C-3P0 or Data, but it’s a start. We have made no scientific claims, but we’re excited by our experimental design which will send millions of queries to D-Wave’s quantum computers.
You can learn more about our scientific program on our new FAQ webpage. We’ll have a more technical White Paper in the weeks ahead for scientists looking for more details of our experimental protocol.
Now back to the research! 🔬
Suzanne
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