Luft zum Denken: Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence | Jeffrey White | Episode 3

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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"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