*TODAY AT 3:30PM JUNIOR PARLOUR, TRINITY COLLEGE* *DAVID DEUTSCH (by video link) *
*DIRECTIONS TO JUNIOR PARLOUR, TRINITY COLLEGE*: The main entrance (Great Gate) of Trinity College is found on Trinity Street, close to the end of All Saint’s Passage. To reach the Junior Parlour, you do not enter Trinity College through the Great Gate. The entrance to Whewell's Court is directly opposite the Great Gate of Trinity College, next to the old post office and Heffer's bookshop. When you enter into Whewell's Court, turn right immediately after the first arch‐way. Climb the open‐air stairs until you are just short of the top. Turn right into T staircase. The Junior Parlour is at the end of the passageway through the door. It is much easier than it sounds and we will post some signs. New Discussion Series : *AI in the History of Knowledge*, Clifford Siskin, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence March 4th: AI in the History of Knowledge I: *David Deutsch and the Copernican Delay* David Deutsch will join us by Skype from Oxford University. Starting with the 1985 paper that first proposed the idea of a universal quantum computer, David's work has “set the agenda for subsequent international research efforts in quantum computation” (Royal Society). His focus on explanation rather than description has extended that influence across the disciplines, as it gives quantum theory a long-delayed purchase on the real after decades of “shut up and calculate.” In two books, The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity, he has grounded those explanations in both history (the Enlightenment) and philosophy (Karl Popper). His current project, Constructor Theory, proposes a fundamentally new mode of explanation that precisely expresses the concepts of information and knowledge. In our discussion, he will bring this work to bear on the current state of AI and on the issues of regulating knowledge and technologies it has generated. His talking points for a brief statement to start discussion include: • AGI is inevitable but very hard and there's no sign of its being imminent. • Progress in AI is not progress in AGI. • Qua computer program, AI is the opposite of AGI. • AGIs are people. • Trying to shackle an AGI's thinking is slavery. -- ---- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, UK Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)32987 Web: prce.hu/w/ | www.phil.cam.ac.uk | lcfi.ac.uk | cser.ac.uk _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
