Could Computer Programs Become Conscious?

Semester’s Thesis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), course Philosophical perspectives on the exact sciences. Available as a PDF here.

Jan Sobotka
Jan Sobotka
CS Master’s Student & AI/ML Research Assistant

I am a master’s student in computer science at EPFL and a research assistant at the Autonomous Systems Group at the University of Texas at Austin. I am interested in (mechanistic) interpretability, foundation models, the science of deep learning, and ML applications in brain-computer interfaces.