Аспирантура
2024/2025
Философия искусственного интеллекта
Статус:
Курс по выбору
Направление:
00.00.00. Аспирантура
Кто читает:
Школа философии и культурологии
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1 семестр
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Вервурт Луи Поль Дж.
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
2
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This is a course on the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on graduate level. We will start with an overview of the basic concepts of the philosophy of AI. We then continue with more advanced insights about Deep Learning / Machine Learning (DL/ML) based on artificial neural networks (ANN). AI is nowadays widely used, and will become particularly powerful and ubiquitous in the near future. Several philosophers and AI experts have extolled the quasi-unlimited potential of this technology; others have warned for an imminent ‘singularity’ in human history in which superintelligent AI systems will overtake the hegemony over people. It therefore is important to reflect on the foundational aspects of this potentially disruptive technology. LLMs (Large Language Models) have recently made such spectacular progress that several philosophical questions become urgent as never before.
We will study some of the latest writings of experts as Vincent Mueller and Cameron Buckner, to try to grasp what the evolution of advanced AI may look like. Some other questions we will investigate are: What is the difference between human intelligence and AI? Could computers have a mind and consciousness? Is thinking computing? Finally, we will also study some of the research done at HSE about these questions