The Uppsala Vienna AI Colloquium is a series of colloquium style talks focused on philosophical issues surrounding AI technology.
Each talk will focus on a specific issue of relevance to AI systems (e.g., intelligence, agency, responsibility, etc.) and will be delivered by an expert with research background on the topic. The intended audience of the talks are philosophically informed individuals with an interest in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
This month's talk will be delivered by:
Tom McClelland
lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
https://tommcclelland.org/
The title and abstract of the talk as below:
Title: Consciousness, Comprehension and Creativity in AI
Abstract:
Is AI capable of creativity? This question is bound up with other challenging questions about the capacities of artificial systems. Human creativity typically involves some conscious experience of the creative project and some comprehension of the domain in which one is being creative. But are consciousness and comprehension necessary conditions of creativity? And, if so, what are the prospects of AI satisfying those conditions? I explore the role of consciousness and comprehension in the three stages of creativity – preparation, incubation and evaluation – and consider the challenges of attributing consciousness and comprehension to AI. I argue that although consciousness is not necessary for evaluation as such it is plausibly necessary for certain kinds of evaluation. Doubts about artificial consciousness then entail doubts about certain kinds of artificial creativity.
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On behalf of all the organizers,
Nikhil Mahant
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University
nikhil.mahant@filosofi.uu.se
https://www.nikhilmahant.com/