Events
Paraidox Session | April 23 — The Paradoxes of AI and Human Systems
Online event organized by Gudio van Nispen. Featuring Vint Cerf, Joerg Blumtritt, Dr Tamás Dávid-Barrett, and Gregorio Ameyugo.
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time: 1700 to 1800 CEST, 1100 to 1200 ET
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What will history post AI look like? What will we see when we look back 50 years from now? Will there still be historic reality? Or will there be a multitude of alternative world-models, generated from synthetic data? Will the simulacra generated by our AI models drift away from reality, become their own reality?
Joerg Blumtritt will talk about high-dimensional models of reality, simulation and synthetic data, simumulacra and the hyperreal.
Joerg’s work with privacy preserving model training and homomorphic encryption has been leading him along this journey, and confronted him with all kinds of weird stuff, like model poisoning and model collapse, the curse of dimensionality, reality hidden in low-dimensional submanifolds … and the question, whether the model after which we are chasing with AGI is the “Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it” ?
«Le simulacre n’est jamais ce qui cache la vérité – c’est la vérité qui cache qu’il n’y en a pas. Le simulacre est vrai.»
AI: Is it creative or just crap?
AI and the creative industries — What does it do? What can’t it do?
What will it enhance?
What will it make obsolete?
What will it retrieve that might not happen otherwise?
This session will feature creative work by Wheaton students, critical, celebratory, academic, satyrical.
Mary Lyon Hall, Woolley Room (2nd floor).
For questions, comments, and suggestions, contact:
Joerg Blumtritt, Director of the WIIH
[email protected]
Talk 1: AI, Artists, and the Future of Creativity
Talk 1: AI, Artists, and the Future of CreativityVince Warne gives an Introduction to Vilém Flusser and his thoughts on AI art at the WIIH.
Wednesday, October 9, 3:30 p.m.
Mary Lyon Hall, May Room
More information on the Wheaton Blog!
Talk 2: The artistic merits of automated statistics
Talk 2: The artistic merits of automated statisticsBruce Sterling talks about AI at the WIIH.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2:15 p.m.
Mary Lyon Hall, May Room
More information on the Wheaton Blog!
Conversation: 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.
Tuesday, September 30, 5:00 p.m.
Mary Lyon Hall, Woolley Room (2nd floor).