THE MOST IMPORTANT INFO IN ADVANCE:
In this new podcast, renowned experts in the field of AI will be invited as guests to talk with Jan Söffner (Zeppelin University). The podcast makes a course of ten sessions available to a broader public.
After an approximately 60-minute interview with the guest in part 1, part 2 is a 60-minute follow-up discussion and Q&A session with the students.
For background information on the topic, just scroll down a little.
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IN THIS EPISODE:
Today's guest in our Welle20 Studio: Jeffrey White
Philosopher and Researcher at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, his paper “Simulation, self-extinction, and philosophy in the service of human civilization” argues that simulations afford a unique potential to secure a post-human future and may be necessary for a pre-post-human civilization like our own to achieve and to maintain a post-human situation.
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CONTENT BACKGROUND OF THE PODCAST SEMINAR:
"What is called thinking?" The question Martin Heidegger asked in his lecture of 1951/52 reads like a counter-question to the one Alan Turing had asked a year earlier in his essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence: "Can a machine think?“ Both ways of asking the same question are more relevant today than ever before. The attempt to define ‘thinking’ by the Turing Test has sort of „programmed“ computer development in such a way that software seems to be able to perform more and more human thinking without having developed a consciousness or what Heidegger called a Da-Sein (being there). But is AI therefore really thinking? Or vice versa: Is the human consciousness still needed under these conditions? And what for?
The course was dedicated to the comparison and interplay of artificial and human intelligence, addressing the latest theories and newest software solutions. It was designed as a podcast seminar to which proven experts in the field were invited.
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Enjoy listening to this episode! We are looking forward to your feedback, suggestions and comments:
Either as a direct message via Instagram: @welle20radio at: https://www.instagram.com/welle20studio/
Or simply by using the comments function in the podcast app.
"Luft zum Denken: Artificial Intellegence and Human Intellegence. Episode 3: Jeffrey White" is a cooperation between Welle20 and the Chair of Cultural Theory and Analysis at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
Content and Preparation: Prof. Dr. Jan Söffner
Executive Production: Chiara Keßel
A Welle20 Podcast