Experience an exciting public lecture by Jack Copeland in the OecherLab: "Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence and the Imitation Game". Immerse yourself in the world of AI, Turing's early concepts and their relevance today.
20 November 2024 | OecherLab, Kapuzinergraben 19D, 52062 Aachen, Germany
The lecture is organised by the KHK c:o/re in cooperation with the AI Center of RWTH Aachen University and the OecherLab and promises to offer fascinating insights into the history and future of artificial intelligence.
The lecture will be followed by a fireside chat between Holger Hoos and Jack Copeland, and Gabriele Gramelsberger will introduce you to the event.
Alan Turing, artificial intelligence and the imitation game
At the turn of the millennium, Time magazine listed Alan Turing as one of the 100 greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. His ideas helped us move from an era where 'computer' was the term for a human employee doing maths in the back office of an insurance company or in a science lab, to a world where many no longer know life without the internet. His fundamental contributions to computer science are widely celebrated today, but less explored is his groundbreaking work on what we now call artificial intelligence.
This talk describes the evolution of Turing's thinking about intelligent machines, from his wartime investigations at the British codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park to his seminal publications in the early 1950s.
In his famous 1950 article 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', he described his imitation game, now known simply as the 'Turing Test'. Over the years, Turing's test has been the target of a hail of objections from computer science, philosophy and other fields.
The talk will show that the leading objections in the literature miss their target, being largely based on misunderstandings of Turing's subtle test; and recent claims that Turing's test actually passed will be evaluated in the light of Turing's own specification of the test.
Jack Copeland is Distinguished Professor in Humanities at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), a world expert on the life and work of Alan Turing, and a leading philosopher of AI, computing and information.
Holger Hoos is Professor of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University and a leading researcher in the field of machine learning. The evening will be introduced by Gabriele Gramelsberger, Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research Aachen (KHK c:o/re) and Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at RWTH Aachen University. The event is organised in collaboration between the KHK c:o/re, the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at RWTH Aachen University and the OecherLab.
The number of places available is limited; we recommend that you arrive early.
