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
Machine Learning Researcher & Engineer

I recently completed an MSc in computer science at EPFL and a research data science role at AXA GO in Paris, studying the development of inductive reasoning in language model pre-training. I’m currently a research assistant with Prof. Ufuk Topcu at UT Austin.