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SUMMARY:MediaFutures and AI Agora Joint Seminar: Understanding Trust and Conversational Agent with Jonas Ivarsson\, Professor at the University of Gothenburg
DESCRIPTION:Jonas Ivarsson\, Professor at the University of Gothenburg\, will give a seminar on 1 November\, at 13:15. \nTITLE: Understanding Trust and Conversational Agent  \nWHEN: Tuesday 1 November\, 13:15-14:00. \nWHERE: Store læringsrom\, læringslab 3. etasje\, Media City Bergen \n\nABSTRACT: \nIn recent years\, the field of natural language processing has seen substantial developments resulting in robust voice-based interactive services. The quality of the voice and interactivity are sometimes so good that the artificial cannot be differentiated from real persons. Thus\, discerning whether an interactional partner is a human or an artificial agent is no longer merely a theoretical question but also a practical problem facing people of ordinary society. Consequently\, the ‘Turing test’ has moved from the laboratory into the wild. The passage from the theoretical to the practical domain also accentuates understanding as a topic of continued inquiry. When interactions are successful\, but the artificial agent has not been identified as such\, can it also be said that the interlocutors have understood each other? In what ways do understanding figure in real-world human–computer interactions? The argument will be made that we need two parallel conceptions of understanding to address these questions. By departing from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis\, it is illustrated how parties in a conversation regularly deploy two forms of analysis (categorical and sequential) to understand their interactional partner. The interplay between these forms of analysis shapes the developing sense of interactional exchanges and is crucial for established relations. Furthermore\, outside of experimental settings\, any problems of identifying and categorizing an interactional partner raise concerns regarding trust and suspicion. When suspicion is roused\, shared understanding becomes disrupted. The address thus concludes that the proliferation of conversational systems\, fueled by artificial intelligence\, may have unintended consequences\, including its impacts on human–human interactions. \nBIO: \nJonas Ivarsson is a professor of informatics. He started in cognitive science and communication studies before moving to education. In 2013 he became a professor of education\, where his research focused on the role of various technologies in developing knowledge and competence. \nIn 2019 he moved to Informatics at the Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg. There\, his role is to take the lead on the emerging research on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence—a specific approach to the interplay between humans and machines in the context of artificial intelligence. Central to this approach are questions relating to how to design AI systems to operate in the context of human users and how to design learning trajectories of humans so that they can intelligently interact with increasingly complex semi-autonomous systems.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-and-ai-agora-joint-seminar-understanding-trust-and-conversational-agent-with-jonas-ivarsson-professor-at-the-university-of-gothenburg/
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SUMMARY:MediaFutures and AI Agora Joint Seminar: The Scientific and Computational Study of Creativity with Geraint A. Wiggins\, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
DESCRIPTION:Geraint A. Wiggins\, Professor of Computational Creativity in the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel\, will give a seminar on 1 November\, at 14:15. \nTITLE: The Scientific and Computational Study of Creativity  \nWHEN: Tuesday 1 November\, 14:15-16:00.  \nWHERE: Store læringsrom\, læringslab 3. etasje\, Media City Bergen \n\nABSTRACT: \nCreativity remains one of the most valued and the most mysterious of human (and sometimes animal) capacities. There are two particular things that make creativity difficult to study. First\, it is extremely context-sensitive and subjective. Second\, it is not a thing\, nor a property of a thing\, but rather a property of processes. Both of these properties make creativity elusive; the combination of them produces a dynamic concept which is very hard to pin down. Colton has argued that this is in some sense the correct state of affairs\, in that creativity is an essentially contested concept. Geraint does not choose this emergency exit\, however\, and he aims to outline an alternative philosophy in this talk. \nHe presents a summary of selected works in creativity studies\, related to philosophy\, psychology\, and computational creativity. He discusses the consequences of these ideas for computational creativity studies\, and the related opportunities for the human sciences. He finishes with a set of desiderata for computationally creative systems\, in terms of both implementation and behaviour\, which themselves may form hypotheses for scientific study of human creativity. \nBIO: \nGeraint A. Wiggins studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge\, and holds PhDs in Artificial Intelligence and in Musical Composition\, from the University of Edinburgh. He is Professor of Computational Creativity in the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Previously\, he was Head of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is Associate Editor (English) of Musicae Scientiae\, the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music\, a consulting editor of Music Perception and an editorial board member of the Journal of New Music Research. From 2000 to 2004\, he chaired the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour\, the UK learned society for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science\, and from 2004 to 2014\, he chaired the international Association for Computational Creativity\, of whose Journal he is now Editor-in-Chief. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the Founding Chair of the Dilys Trust\, a charity that helps intellectually able but economically disadvantaged young people in the UK attend top class universities.Geraint has worked in artificial intelligence\, computer music\, and cognitive science since 1984. He was one of the founders of the research field of computational creativity\, which studies creative intelligence\, and was the first in the world to hold a named professorial chair in that research area. His current work relates to cognitive architectures that explicate the relationship between perception\, learning and creativity\, in sequential domains\, most notably language and music.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/the-scientific-and-computational-study-of-creativity-with-geraint-a-wiggins-professor-at-vrije-universiteit-brussel/
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