Lecture on November 5th, 2020
Does AlphaGo Actually Play Go? Concerning the State Space of AI
Prof. Dr. Holger Lyre (Universität Magdeburg)
About the lecture
The goal of the talk is to develop and propose a general model of the state space of AI. Given the breathtaking progress in AI research and technologies in recent years, such conceptual work is of substantial theoretical interest. The present AI hype is mainly driven by the triumph of deep learning neural networks. As the distinguishing feature of such networks is the ability to self-learn, self-learning is identified as one important dimension of the AI state space. Another dimension is recognized as generalization, the possibility to go over from specific to more general types of problems. A third dimension is semantic grounding. Our overall analysis connects to a number of known foundational issues in the philosophy of mind and cognition: the blockhead objection, the Turing test, the symbol grounding problem, the Chinese room argument, and use theories of meaning. It shall finally be argued that the dimension of grounding decomposes into three sub-dimensions. And the dimension of self-learning turns out as only one of a whole range of “self-x-capacities” (based on ideas of organic computing) that span the self-x-subspace of the full AI state space.
About the speaker
Holge Lyre is Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Magdeburg. 1993 diploma degree in physics (U Dortmund), 1996 PhD in philosophy (U Bochum), 2003 habilitation (U Bonn). Visiting Professor at the universities of Bielefeld and Augsburg, visiting fellowships at universities in Pittsburgh, San Diego, Munich and Sydney. 2011-2016 President of the “Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie” (GWP); Member of the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), Magdeburg; currently collaboration with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain in terms of the DFG-GRK 2386 “Extrospection”.
Research areas: philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of neurocognition and philosophy of physics.
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Thursday, 5. November 2020, 18:15-19:45
– delivered in digital form –
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https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines/winter20-21.html
poster lecture Holger Lyre [pdf]
programme "Taming the Machines" in winter 2020/21 [pdf]