Reflections on a year studying ???Consciousness and AI???

I know this blog has been a little quiet recently. If you followed my work in the past, you might be wondering what I have been up to the past year or so, after leaving Unity in early 2021. Working on ML-Agents the previous four years was an incredibly rewarding (and challenging) experience. I had been with the project from its very inception and seen it grow both in popularity and maturity. I learned a lot about open source, project management, and machine learning. I also made a number of great friends. By early 2021 I felt I was ready for a new challenge. My formal academic background is in Psychology, and I had just received my PhD. I wanted what I did next to be in a direction that married my two interests: machine learning and the study of the mind.

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