30.4318, Calls: Cog Science, Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Translation/Luxembourg

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Subject: 30.4318, Calls: Cog Science, Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Translation/Luxembourg

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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:08:28
From: Christoph Purschke [christoph.purschke at uni.lu]
Subject: The Humanities And The Rise Of AI

 
Full Title: The Humanities And The Rise Of AI 

Date: 14-Jun-2020 - 18-Jun-2020
Location: Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 
Contact Person: Isabell Baumann
Meeting Email: isabell.baumann at uni.lu
Web Site: http://endsofthehumanities.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 13-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

Digitization and the rise of artificial intelligence forecast radical change
on all aspects of human practice, especially given the ever-improving
abilities of algorithms in tasks like pattern recognition and their practical
application. Powerful technology arises from AI research, opening the gate for
various forms of cultural and societal engineering, i.e., a reshaping of
culture and society by dint of algorithmic models and “intelligent”
applications. To date, however, even highly-trained algorithms are only
outperforming humans in very specific tasks with limited scope (e.g., chess),
as opposed to banal – yet cognitively highly complex – everyday actions like
assessing the immediate consequences of a lie.

Thus, although the development of artificial intelligence is still in its
beginnings, it has already triggered an enormous rush of utopian and dystopian
thinking. While some dream of immortality and the vanquishing of poverty,
disease, and warfare, others foresee a grim future for those parts of humanity
that will find themselves outpaced by technology. Potential consequences of
the changes imposed by technological advancement on human practice reach from
the level of the individual, through cultural techniques, to the organization
of society as a whole, raising fundamental questions, such as:

How does artificial intelligence impact our understanding of the human mind,
especially in relation to the role of its computational equivalents that reach
more and more aspects of everyday life (e.g., chatbots, driverless mobility,
risk assessment software in the banking and insurance sector)?
What are the consequences of digitization and machine learning algorithms for
education and our understanding of learning and creativity (e.g., in schooling
through adaptive tutors, but also against the background of our current notion
of creativity as a unique human ability)?
How will the increasing use of computational methodology change the ways we
relate to the past and envision the future (e.g., by reading), both in
academia and in society? How can the enrichment of algorithmic models with
methods and results from the humanities shape and improve computational
assessment of human practice (e.g., data mining of big text corpora, automated
translation, racial bias in neural networks)?
How does the use of artificial intelligence in all domains of human practice
influence how we deal with complexity (e.g., of society) and human control
thereof? Can computational methods help to reduce, organize, and analyze
cultural complexity, or do they pose a threat to human control over different
aspects of the lifeworld (e.g., security and network technology, automation of
industrial production, autonomous weaponry)?

Against the background of such questions, the conference aims to foster an
open and critical reflection on the consequences of cultural and societal
engineering. The conference will focus on the following areas of interest,
each of which will assemble representatives of different disciplines:

- SECTION I – MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS
- SECTION II – LEARNING AND INVENTING
- SECTION III – READING AND DATA MODELING
- SECTION IV – COMPLEXITY AND CONTROL


Call for Papers:

A publication of the conference papers is planned.

Organiser: Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education,
Prof. Dr Georg Mein, University of Luxembourg
Please download the CfP to find a detailed description of the individual
sections.
 
Submission of abstracts (up to two pages) for paper presentations of 20
minutes by 13 December 2019 (cfp at endsofthehumanities.com). 
 
Conference language: English 
 
Travel grants for early career researchers available. For further information,
please visit http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/travel-grants/

See the full call description on the conference website:
http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/call-for-paper-2020/




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