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SUMMARY:Complexity – From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence - Klaus Mainzer
DESCRIPTION:“Complexity – From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence” – Klaus Mainzer (TU Munich). \nAbstract: \nAccording to several prominent authors\, including Stephen Hawking\, a main part of 21st century science will be on complexity research. The intuitive idea is that global patterns and structures emerge from locally interacting elements like atoms in laser beams\, molecules in chemical reactions\, proteins in cells\, cells in organs\, neurons in brains\, transistors in electronic systems etc. (Mainzer 2007). Complex pattern formation has been reported from many disciplines (e.g.\,  physics\, chemistry\, biology\, brain research\, engineering). The causes of complex pattern formation have been analyzed from various perspectives such as Schrödinger’s (1948) order from disorder\, Prigogine’s (1980) dissipative structure\, Haken’s (1983) synergetics\, Langton’s (1990) edge of chaos etc. But concepts of complexity are often based on examples or metaphors only. We argue for a mathematically precise and rigorous definition of local activity as the cause of complex pattern formation which can be tested in natural as well as technical sciences by constructive methods. \nRecently\, these results of complexity research have become important for machine learning of AI (artificial intelligence) systems (e.g.\, neural networks\, cognitive AI-systems\, robots). Instead of complex pattern formation in nature\, complex pattern recognition of AI-systems is considered which is modeled in statistical learning theory. But statistical correlations of data cannot replace causal explanations of events. Algorithms of causal learning are necessary to detect causal models behind the statistical distributions of data. Causal learning would be a first step from weak AI with probabilistic learning to strong AI. \nReferences: K. Mainzer\, Thinking in Complexity\, Springer: Berlin 5th edition 2007; K. Mainzer/L. Chua\, Local Activity Principle. The Cause of Complexity\, World Scientific Singapore 2013; K. Mainzer\, Artificial Intelligence. When do Machines take over? Springer: Berlin 2nd edition 2019; K. Mainzer/ R. Kahle\, Grenzen der Künstlichen Intelligenz – theoretisch\, praktisch\, ethisch\, Springer. Berlin 2022. \nKlaus Mainzer is professor emeritus at the Technical University Munich of the School of Social Sciences and Technology. While obtaining a PhD in the philosophy of the basics of mathematics\, more precisely constructive and algorithmically grounded procedures\, he habilitated on their application in geometry and physics. He is a member of The Academy of Europe (Academy Europaea)/London\, the European Academy of Science and Arts\, the German Academy of Science of Technology\, president of the German-Japanese Society for Integrative Science and board member of the Udo Keller Stiftung (Hamburg). From the vantage point of contemplating the computability of the world\, he works as a science philosopher of the foundations and future perspectives of science and technology and as a complexity researcher focussed on complex systems in nature\, technology\, economy and society\, as well as the foundations of AI and Big Data. His research seeks for constructively founded solutions\, methods and evidentiary procedures which allow to control the algorithmization and digitalization of technology and society. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity“.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-klaus-mainzer/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: On the Curious Complexity of Soviet AI - Benjamin Peters
DESCRIPTION:“Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: On the Curious Complexity of Soviet AI” by Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa). \nAbstract: \nThis public talk will explore the material media philosophies of Soviet artificial intelligence research and its precursors. In particular\, it will examine the case for not-anthropomorphic\, even invisual imaginations of smart technologies in the wartime wake of the Soviet experience with damaged bodies. \nBenjamin Peters is Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa with appointments in the School of Cyber Studies and Russian Studies Program. He is also affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and alumnus of Columbia’s Communication PhD program in 2010. He is the author of How Not to Network a Nation: the Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (MITP 2016\, winner of three awards in three fields)\, editor of Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society & Culture (Princeton UP 2016)\, and coeditor of Your Computer is on Fire (MITP 2021). He has published extensively across the fields of media theory and history\, the transnational history and philosophy of information technology & society\, and technology criticism with an emphasis on the causes and consequences of the information age in the Soviet century. He is currently conducting research on alternative genealogies of artificial intelligence. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity“.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-benjamin-peters/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Instability and Complexity. On the Emergence of Late-Modern Science - Jan C. Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:“Instability and Complexity. On the Emergence of Late-Modern Science” by  Jan C. Schmidt (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences) \nAbstract\nIn my talk\, I distinguish between compositional and dynamical complexity – in order to focus on the latter from the perspective of complex systems theory. Complex systems theory\, including nonlinear dynamics\, chaos-\, self-organization- and catastrophe theory\, fractal geometry\, synergetics and dissipative structures is a fascinating field of scientific inquiry that spans many established disciplines. However\, it poses challenging problems for scientific methodology as well as cultural guiding metaphysical assumptions\, e.g.\, predictability\, reproducibility\, testability and describability/explainability. The common denominator of all of these challenges is instability — that is the main thesis. On the other hand\, instabilities are not seen only in the negative sense. They turn out as a relevant factor of dynamical complexity and\, in particular\, as a source of growth\, self-organization\, pattern formation and of biological life. However\, instability has long been neglected in the history of science. The talk will reconstruct the vibrant history of instability and show how the “dogma of stability” was replaced in the 20th century by a different view of nature and the sciences that includes instabilities – and thus\, acknowledges dynamic complexity. This gradual shift within the culture of the sciences and the emergence of a new-late modern regime will be addressed. The late-modern regime does not replace the traditional\, classical-modern regime\, but complements and extends it. \nJan Cornelius Schmidt is physicist (Ph.D.) and philosopher (Habilitation). Since 2008 he has been Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Previously\, he was junior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Physics\, Mainz\, as well as at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Technology\, Darmstadt\, and Associate Professor for Philosophy of Technology at Georgia Tech\, Atlanta. He was invited Guest and Stand-In-Professor at Universities in Jena\, Klagenfurt and Vienna. Schmidt serves on the scientific advisory board of the Transdisciplinarity Net\, Swiss Academies of Sciences\, Berne\, and he is member of the scientific advisory board of the Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice. His research interests encompass philosophy and history of science and technology; science and technology studies; technology assessment; science\, engineering and sustainability ethics; concepts of inter- and transdisciplinarity; and complex systems\, nonlinear dynamics\, chaos and self-organization theories. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series Complexity.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-jan-c-schmidt/
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SUMMARY:From Reciprocity of Formulation to Symbolic Language: A Source of Complexity in Scientific Knowledge - Giora Hon
DESCRIPTION:“From reciprocity of formulation to symbolic language: a source of complexity in scientific knowledge” by Giora Hon (University of Haifa). \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity”.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-giora-hon/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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