TIM_BM_023 AI R/Evolutions

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2023
Rozsah
2/0/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Luis Armand, PhD. (přednášející), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Ústav hudební vědy – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav hudební vědy – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Po 13. 11. 10:00–17:40 N41, Út 14. 11. 10:00–17:40 N41, St 15. 11. 10:00–17:40 N41
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 50 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 17/50, pouze zareg.: 0/50, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/50
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This seminar examines the historical evolution of material consciousness & intelligent machines -- from the Industrial Revolution to the so-called Technological Singularity; from the advent of autopoietic machines to the proposition that any system can be entroped to function as a "neural network"; from AI as human prosthesis to AI as the terminal horizon of the "posthuman condition."
The linkage between mass industrialisation, information systems & ecology brings into view the idea of a semiosphere or noosphere, in which local-global structures exhibit "intelligence." Quantum computing, terraformation & cosmology point to ways in which catastrophic systems also produce a mode of "catastrophic intelligence."
Whether or not humanity can "learn" from the anthropocene is no longer the question here, but what the anthropocene can mean for the idea of a general "technology" of non-human & post-human systems, & ultimately the place of humanly-defined "intelligence" within these.
Where machine learning has previously involved a necessary hierarchy of knowledge-power vis-a-vis humans, this seminar examines the ways in which "machines," or systems in general, make manifest a general materiality of "consciousness" communicable as feedback systems. This feedback produces self-modifying behaviour along the entire spectrum of possible "communication," implying that intelligence, too, is evolutionary.
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Siegried Giedion, Mechanisation Takes Command
  • Jean Baudrillard, "The Procession of Simulacra"
  • VNS Matrix, "Cyberfeminist Manifesto"
  • McKenzie Wark, "Hacker Manifesto"
  • Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics
  • Donna Hararway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"
  • John McCarthy, Human-Level AI: The Logical Road
  • Arthur Samuel, "Some studies in machine learning using the game of checkers"
  • Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
  • Lewis Mumford, Technics & Civilisation
  • Jacques Lacan, “A Materialist Definition of Consciousness”
  • Laboria Cuboniks, "Xenofeminist Manifesto"
  • Warren McCulloch & Walter Pitts, “A Logical Calculus of the ideas Imminent in Nervous Activity”
  • Vanevar Bush, “As We May Think”
  • Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”
    doporučená literatura
  • Louis Armand, ENTROPOLOGY (https://www.academia.edu/77484038/ENTROPOLOGY)
  • Marshall McLuhan, THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE (https://designopendata.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/themediumisthemassage_marshallmcluhan_quentinfiore.pdf)
  • Charlie Wood, HOW TO MAKE THE UNIVERSE THINK FOR US (https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-make-the-universe-think-for-us-20220531/)
  • Buckminster Fuller, SYNERGETICS: EXPLORATIONS IN THE GEOMETRY OF THINKING (https://fullerfuture.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/buckminsterfuller-synergetics.pdf)
  • Allison Whitten, AI OVERCOMES STUMBLING BLOCK ON BRAIN-INSPIRED HARDWARE (https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-overcomes-stumbling-block-on-brain-inspired-hardware-20220217/)
  • Benjamin Bratton, THE TERRAFORMING (https://www.are.na/block/5810611)
  • Louis Armand, TERATOLOGIES (https://www.academia.edu/41844345/Teratologies)
Výukové metody
Assessment will be based on attendance at the intensive 2-day seminar, plus a 3,000 word essay that examines, within a critical/theoretical framework, the seminar's central proposition that "any system can exhibit 'intelligence.'" Due date: 26. 1. 2024.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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