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Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence

Draft Schedule

Readings

“Making AI Meaningful Again” [1]

“There is no General AI” [2]

Wed Feb 19 13:30-17:15 4h

Introduction to philosophy for AI scientists
A practical problem -- the need for consistently curated data
How ontology can solve this problem
The history of philosophy from an ontological perspective
How philosophy can benefit AI science
Slides

Thu Feb 20 09:30 - 12:15 3h

Searle's Chinese Room argument
Intelligence vs. consciousness
What is intelligence and what do intelligence tests measure?
Driverless philosophy: How data science can help
the history of philosophy
to make progress in philosophy
Readings:
There is no general AI
Humanness
Slides

Fri Feb 21 09:30 - 12:15 3h

The cycles of AI enthusiasm and AI winters
Making AI Meaningful Again
Basic Formal Ontology (ISO/IEC 21838-2)
Upper Level Ontologies
DOLCE
Slides

Tue May 19 14:30 - 17:15 3h

There is no general AI
The Turing test
AI is a family of algorithms to automate repetitive events
Deep neural networks have nothing to do with neurons
AI is not artificial intelligence; it is a branch of mathematics in which the attempt is made to use the Turing machine to its limits by using gigantically large amounts of data
Slides

Student presentations

Carola Calabrese: Universal Intelligence - A definition of Machine intelligence
Lorenzo Bucci: Making AI Meaningful Again
Emanuele Martinelli: Minds, Brains and Programs
Vinicius Emmanuel Bloise: The Limits of Machine Intelligence
Hrishikesh Gupta: Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Wed May 20 9:30 - 12:15 3h

AI and Transhumanism: Can we download the contents of our brains onto a computer and become immortal?
https://buffalo.box.com/v/We-are-living-in-a-simulation Scott Adams: We are living in a simulation]
AI and the meaning of life:
AI and The Matrix

Student presentations

Elia Claudio Esposito: Rationality and Intelligence
Wei Huang: Solomonoff Prediction and Occam's Razor
Andrea dell'Orso: The Elephant Doesn't Play Chess
Michael Denzler: Artificial Life and the Chinese Room Argument
Fabiana Ballarin: Alan Turing and the Mathematical Objection
Alessandro Cecconi: Which Symbol Grounding Problem Should We Try to Solve?

Fri May 22 9:30 - 12:15 3h

Affordances and the background of Artificial Intelligence
Making AI Meaningful Again
Basic Formal Ontology (ISO/IEC 21838-2)
The origins of Basic Formal Ontology
Why should an ontology become an ISO standard?
What you can do with BFO in philosophy
How ontologies are used in information and data science

Student presentations

Hrittik Roy: Theoretical Implications of Machine Learning
Xintan Lin: The Basic AI Drives
David Limacher: Incorporating Ethics into Artificial Intelligence
Tommaso Soriani: Mind Embodied and Embedded
André Garcia Gomez: What to Do with the Singularity Paradox

Tue May 26 14:30 - 17:15 3h

The problem of meaningful AI
AI and intelligence analysis
The Cognitive Process Ontology
Warrant

Student presentations:

Mauro Mario Gentile: Can Computer Based Human-Likeness Endanger Humanness?
Sebastian Obrist: Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?
Eric Tremolanti: Why Machine Ethics?
Marco Mirabello: In Defense of Truth: Skepticism, Morality, and The Matrix
Michael Mazourik: The Social Dilemma ofAautonomous Vehicles

Wed May 27 14:30 - 17:15 3h

Driverless philosophy / Philosophy on rails

Thu May 28 09:30 - 12:15 3h

Dialogue with Jobst Landgrebe (Cognotekt, Cologne) on the Social Impact of AI

Further Background Reading

Jordan Peterson's Essay Writing Guide
Gerald J. Erion and Barry Smith, “In Defense of Truth: Skepticism, Morality, and The Matrix”, in W. Irwin (ed.), Philosophy and The Matrix, La Salle and Chicago: Open Court, 2002, 16–27.
Max More and Natasha Vita-More (Eds.), The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, “Making AI Meaningful Again”, Synthese, DOI 10.1007/s11229-019-02192-y