Welcome to the website of the teaching project „AI – Interdisciplinary Perspectives“, funded by eLearning@int of LMU Munich.
This is a cooperation between LMU Munich and ETH Zurich.
LMU Munich – ETH Zurich 2021
Welcome to the website of the teaching project „AI – Interdisciplinary Perspectives“, funded by eLearning@int of LMU Munich.
This is a cooperation between LMU Munich and ETH Zurich.
In the last 50 years, research on artificial intelligence (AI) has repeatedly boomed but failed to deliver on its great promises. In the last decade, however, especially the deep learning approach has achieved remarkable results and is already applied in many contexts. Since this approach breaks with assumptions of the older symbolic approaches of AI research, a new philosophical discussion is needed. Therefore, the interdisciplinary seminar will start from the classical philosophical debate, which was shaped by thinkers like Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle and focused on the concept of the rule following, in order to confront it with the newer state of research, its data driven approach and the concept of learning. We will discuss the consequencesand challenges of these new approaches in AI for their theoretical and philosophical reflection.
In a second step, the seminar will discuss not only epistemological, but also ethical and political aspects of the recent developments in AI in interdisciplinary and international perspectives. We plan to discuss the following topics:
PD Dr. Jörg Noller
Lehrstuhl I für Philosophie
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
joerg.noller_AT_lrz.uni-muenchen.de
PD Dr. Arno Schubbach
ETH Zürich/FHNW Basel
The teaching project is funded within the framework of „eLearning@int“ by the University of Munich.