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Current Issues I - Ausgewählte Themen I : KI & Gesellschaft

Knowledge

Basic concepts of computer science and sociology

Description

The development of modern computer architectures is progressing from symbolic to statistical to neuromorphic machines. What does this mean for the structure and culture of society? How does society cope with the “surplus sense” (Niklas Luhmann) of the new electronic media? Based on the assumption that computers are no longer measured solely by the Tring test, but also by the Durkheim test, the seminar discusses the development from a technomorphic to a neuromorphic to a sociomorphic intelligence. In line with the motto “We don't just count to one”, the seminar is interested in the relationship between mental, social and technical systems.

Learning objectives

Basic terms to describe the interplay of computers, AI and communication in society

Preparation

Literature for the introduction:

Ralf Otte, Maschinenbewusstsein: Die neue Stufe der KI – wie weit wollen wir gehen? Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2021.

Patrick Krauss, Künstliche Intelligenz und Hirnforschung: Neuronale Netze, Deep Learning und die Zukunft der Kognition, Berlin: Springer Nature, 2023.

Comment

the seminar requires reading of the texts, which are prepared for discussion by students through impulse presentations, discussed and tested using a case study

First additional field

Literature and plan:

14.04.2025: Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search, in: Communications of the ACM 19 (1976), pp. 113-126. impulse & discussion: NN; exercise

15.04.2025: Susan Leigh Star, The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions: Boundary Objects and Heterogenous Distributed Problem Solving, in: Les Gasser and Michael N. Huhns (eds.), Distributed Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2, London: Pitman, 1989, pp. 37-54. impulse & discussion: NN; exercise

16.04.2025: Frieder Nake, Surface, Interface, Subface: Three Cases of Interaction and One Concept, in: Uwe Seifert, Jin Hyun Kim, Anthony Moore (eds.): Paradoxes of Interactivity, Bielefeld: transcript, 2008, pp. 92-109.

17.04.2025: Matteo Pasquinelli, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence, London: Verso, 2023 (dt. Das Auge des Meisters: Eine Sozialgeschichte Künstlicher Intelligenz, Münster: Unrast, 2024).

Next events

1/4 Block course Mo, 14.04.2025 10:00 Uhr 18:00 Uhr 1.08 | Aquarium
2/4 Block course Tu, 15.04.2025 10:00 Uhr 18:00 Uhr 1.08 | Aquarium
3/4 Block course We, 16.04.2025 10:00 Uhr 18:00 Uhr 1.08 | Aquarium
4/4 Block course Th, 17.04.2025 10:00 Uhr 18:00 Uhr 1.08 | Aquarium

Course details

Offer code 124401 | 121403
Version 1 Erstversion A5_FS24
Credits / ECTS 6
WSH 3
Frequence Every term

Lecturers

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Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Dirk Baecker
Lecturer