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SUMMARY:Towards an Ecology of Technoscience - Massimiliano Simons
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nNew emerging sciences and technologies – such as AI\, synthetic biology\, or robotics – are too often discussed in isolation. As a result\, little attention is paid to the potential commonalities and ways in which they can inform each other. In this talk\, I want to focus on aspect of what many of these technosciences have in common: attempts to harness the self-organization of systems in order to design new technological artifacts. This involves a certain loss of control: the scientists do not have full control over the outcome\, but grant the system under study a certain autonomy. \nThe most obvious case of this is machine learning in data science\, where a problem – often in the form of discriminating between data – is solved not by rational design\, but by letting a self-learning algorithm find patterns for us. While this can be effective\, it also leads to the problem of opacity: the process by which the problem was solved often remains a black box\, with all the risks that implies. In this talk\, I will argue that this problem is not unique to data science\, but is also at work in other sciences. I will focus on the life sciences\, and in particular the method of directed evolution in synthetic biology\, which follows similar lines: solving a set of problems – how to design specific molecules or enzymes – not by rational design\, but by creating a context in which natural selection solves the problem for us. \nThe goal of this talk is to work toward a more general framework for how and why the technosciences can be characterized by this fascination with self-organization and loss of control. \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2023/24 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-2/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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