David Bates (UC Berkeley): "AI and creativity and the role of disruption in radically new thought" (english)
18. Jun
18 Uhr, Raum C.40.530
Since the origins of AI, the question of creative thought has been an important and vexing issue for researchers. Can creative thought be modelled and translated into machine forms of intelligence? With the advent of generative AI, these questions have only intensified. In this lecture, UC Berkeley Professor Dr. David Bates will elaborate on the reductive approach to creative thought that frequently governs contemporary discourses on artificial intelligence. Drawing on his research about the relationship between technology, science, and the history of human cognition, this talk will discuss the human cognitive capacity for self-interruption and disruption and its quintessential role in creativity.
Dr. David Bates is a professor of the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, focussing on the history of legal and political ideas and the entanglement between the history of human thought and its entanglements with technological and scientific developments. His recently released book “An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence” delves further into the emergence of human thinking as entwined with machine technologies, media practices and social organization, discussing the space artificial intelligence takes in the history of reason. (In his forthcoming book “The Concept of the Political in the Age of Intelligent Machines” Dr. David Bates further works to connect the realms of the technological and political, developing a critical history of the intersection between technology and political theory in the 20th century.)
im Rahmen des Kolloquiums zur Disruptiven Bedingung
(Rückfragen an Anne Gräfe: anne.graefe@leuphana.de)