AI Conversations
Discussing AI and the humanities.
I: Tuesday, September 30, 500 pm
AI: An Interface to the Internet?!
LLMs and Image Generators are trained (more or less) on all the data on the internet. They are basically models of the internet with an interface to access its meaning. What emerges from there is not a description of reality. It is a lens, a mirror, or a screen through which we see into the net of meaning, with all its beauty, and with all its problems.
Let’s discuss!
II: Wednesday, November 19, 500 pm
We want to group Ideas and discussions around reclaiming AI for the humanities around three key dimensions:
1. The theory of AI
- AI metaphysics and the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness: What is the state of AI philosophy 70 years after the Dartmouth Workshop?
- Artificial Life and Metacreation
- AI and free will
- AI aesthetics: Looking at the work of art in the age of its technical producability.
2. The practice of AI
- AI ethics: Towards policies, regulations, and laws
- AI design: Shaping things with generative systems
- AI art: Artists use AI and respond to its challenges
- AI and languages: Natural language processing, machine translation, text generation
- AI and the creative industry: The economy and challenges of generative creativity
3. The future of AI
- Speculating about the future, taking perspective from science fiction, speculative design, and strategic foresight:
What was, what will become … imagining a century of AI
For questions, comments, and suggestions, please reach out to me:
Joerg Blumtritt, Director of the WIIH
Previous events:
Talk 1: AI, Artists, and the Future of Creativity
Vince Warne gives an Introduction to Vilém Flusser and his thoughts on AI art at the WIIH.
When: Wednesday, October 9, 330 pm
Where: Mary Lyon Hall, May Room
More information on the Wheaton Blog!
Talk 2: The artistic merits of automated statistics
Bruce Sterling talks about AI at the WIIH.
When: Wednesday, October 23rd, 215pm
Where: Mary Lyon Hall, May Room
More information on the Wheaton Blog!
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