Keynote: Artificial Communication von Prof.in Dr.in Elena Esposito im Rahmen der interdiszi­plinären Online-Tagung des Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden

Research on automatic information processing has always been driven by the idea of reproducing human intelligence with machines. Advanced machine learning algorithms, which inherit and develop this research perspective, are now able to perform many complex tasks that previously had always required the contribution of intelligence. Should we then conclude that machines have become intelligent? If one looks at the work of recent algorithms, one sees that intelligence is neither the point nor the purpose. The project of artificial intelligence has led to building machines that have not learned to become intelligent, but to do something else, that humans do on the basis of intelligence: they have learned to participate in communication. Rather than of artificial intelligence, we might speak of a novel form of artificial communication.

Elena Esposito is a Professor of Sociology at the Universität Bielefeld and at the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

Lecture in English, Moderator: Dominik Schrage (TUD)

The keynote will take place virtually & in presence.