Onsdag 28.08: "On the mysteries of artificial intelligence – do we know what we are doing?", Anders C. Hansen
Anders C. Hansen is head of the group in Applied Functional and Harmonic Analysis within the Cambridge Centre of Analysis at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University, U.K. He is also Prof. II at the Institute of Mathematics, UiO.
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to revolutionise our way of living. We may have self-driving cars in the future and your doctor may be replaced by AI algorithms. The latter is not science fiction anymore. Indeed, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already approved AI techniques for automated diagnosis without the input of a human clinician.
Moreover, modern AI research has been likened to alchemy because of its trial and error approach and lack of foundations. Indeed, Ali Rahimi, an award winning researcher at Google, sparked an intense debate in the community when he used the alchemy analogy and criticised the current state-of-the-art AI and machine learning for its lack of fundamental scientific approach.
We will in this talk discuss the lack of foundations in modern AI, its curious non-human behaviour and the slightly philosophical dilemmas that follow. Finally, we will try to shed some light on the basic question in the AI debate: do we know what we are doing?
Onsdag 11.09: "Making Artificial Intelligence Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations", Herman Cappelen
Herman Cappelen er professor i filosofi ved Universitetet i Oslo og ved St Andrews Univeristet i Skotland: Se hans personlige web-side for en oppdatert oversikt over aktivteter: http://hermancappelen.net/aboutme.html
Abstract: The central question in this presentation is what it is for Artificial Intelligence (and certain machine learning systems in particular) to speak a language and how we can understand what they say. In answering this, I bring together central themes in philosophy of language and cutting edge issues about the use of AI. At the centre of much current discussion about AI is explainability: Should we let AI take decisions for us, if we can not understand how those decisions were made? Many AI systems will tell us what to do (whether someone should get a mortgage, surgery, go to prison, or get job), but the advice the AI systems gives us comes with no explanation of why. In a forthcoming book, Making AI Intelligible, Josh Dever and I try to provide the philosophical foundations for intelligible AI.
Onsdag 25.09: "Fra BI til AI", Gaute Einevoll
Gaute Einevoll er professor i fysikk ved NMBU og professor II ved Center for Integrative Neuroplasticity ved Fysisk Institutt og Institutt for Biovitenskap ved UiO.
Abstract: Gaute Einevoll tar oss med fra Biologisk Intelligens (BI) til Kunstig Intelligens (AI). Einevoll er en ledende Computatational Neuroscientist og skriver for tiden boken "Brain Physics". Han er ogs? kjent som en dyktig vitenskapsformidler, kjent bl.a. fra serien Hjernekamp og er ofte brukt som ekspert av NRK og UiO - f.eks. i Abels T?rn. Se f.eks. "Du lever ikke i virkeligheten, men i en modell" for et intervju med Einevoll. Gaute Einevoll vil gi oss en innf?ring i hvordan hjernen virker - alts? i Biologisk Intelligens - og knyttet dette til hvordan vi arbeider med ? utvikle kunstige modeller for hjernen og etterhvert kanskje kunstig intelligens.
Onsdag 16.10: "Data science day", Arnoldo Frigessi
Arnoldo Frigessi is head of the group in Applied Functional and Harmonic Analysis within the Cambridge Centre of Analysis at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University, U.K. He is also Prof. II at the Institute of Mathematics, UiO.
Abstract First, we will get an introduction to Data science and how it is connected to AI. Then we will go together to participate in the lectures of the Data science day at UiO ( https://www.mn.uio.no/english/research/about/centre-focus/innovation/data-science/events/data-science-day-2019.html ). At 20-21 we will meet again with Arnoldo Frigessi to put the lectures into a broader perspective and to ask questions about the lectures and the connection between Datascience and AI.
Onsdag 30.10: "Juridiske perspektiver p? AI", Malcolm Langford
Malcolm Langford is a Professor of Public Law, University of Oslo and Co-Director of the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, Chr. Michelsen Institute and University of Bergen.
Onsdag 13.11: "Hvem er smartest, menneske eller maskin? Betydningen av G?dels ufullstendighetsteorem", ?ystein Linnebo
?ystein Linnebo is aProfessor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo.