Lectures and seminars PhD student seminar: Martin Eklund
Title: AI, the near future, and the hard problem
About the seminar
By popular demand, Martin Eklund will repeat his faculty event seminar for the PhD group: About a year and three months ago, I gave a popular scientific faculty event presentation entitled “AI, Martians, and a few words on dictatorship”. In that presentation, we discussed how we got to a point in the AI development that smarter-than-human systems are being discussed as a possibility in the near future, as well as some potential mathematical limitations to that development. I will now give a "part 2” of that presentation. I will provide a brief update of how AI functionality has developed since the part 1 presentation and provide my view of what influence that development may have on researchers, our research, and society as a whole. In the part 1 presentation, I very briefly mentioned “the hard problem”, which we will dig a little deeper into during this part 2 presentation. It will be exciting — we will discuss bats, super scientists, and panpsychism — so please come and listen.