Konstantin Mitrokhov: "Between world models and model worlds: on the construction of agency in machine learning"
18. Jul - 19. Jul
18. Jul, 8:30-10:00am, Theater 5, NU building, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Open Panel at EASST-4S 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations www.easst4s2024.net
In his contribution Konstantin Mitrokhov attempts to make sense of the manifold ways agency is modulated in novel cognitive architectures and machine learning practices, paying particular attention to the computational paradigms that aim to simulate (aspects of) the world. Mitrokhov is focusing on the instrumentalisation of worlding (setting up of the world) in machine learning, that is, blurring of the boundaries between the learning subject and its environment for the purpose of modulating synthetic agency. He will discuss several articles that outline novel approaches in AI research and converge on the epistemic rendering of what the “world” is.
Konstantin Mitrokhov is a PhD candidate and scholarship holder at Leuphana University. After researching at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), studying at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem and the University of Westminster, he now works on his doctoral project "Games Agents Play: On Game-like Simulations and the Possibility of Generalist Artificial Intelligence".