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Ghosts in the Machine: An Enquiry into Dreams and AI with Oliver Sprigg

Ghosts in the Machine: An Enquiry into Dreams and AI with Oliver Sprigg

Update: 2025-06-02
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Could dreams be the key to AI consciousness and Artificial General Intelligence? What purpose to dreams serve? And is it really worth reading a full Malcolm Gladwell book? In this week's episode we chat to Oliver Sprigg to find out all of this and more. The is the first in a special season of the Scottish AI Podcast where we're talking to the artists and academics who are presenting projects at AI Can't Write Symphonies and Neither Can You.


Oliver Sprigg (MSc, GMBPsS) is a psychological researcher based in Edinburgh specializing in dreams.


 


Host: Gordon Johnstone (LinkedIn)


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Music: Post Coal Prom Queen

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Ghosts in the Machine: An Enquiry into Dreams and AI with Oliver Sprigg

Ghosts in the Machine: An Enquiry into Dreams and AI with Oliver Sprigg

Scottish AI Alliance