Watch Now: Four Talks Questioning Human-Like Properties of AI Four fascinating talks at the University of Toronto’s public workshop, “Intelligence in the Absence of Life,” are now available on video. Delivered to a packed audience on April 9, 2024, these talks put the so-called human-like properties of AI under the microscope and raised questions concerning […]
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— Video In a presentation on the ethical challenges emerging with the rapid expansion of AI and robotics, in which the humanities too have become a target of automation, Teresa Heffernan argues that it is only by maintaining the tensions between these domains that we can hope to have an informed debate about the limits
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— Video The Big Thinking public panel on the social implications of AI, held at the Halifax Public Library on November 14, was a lively and well attended event. The discussants included Teresa Heffernan, Ian Kerr, Fuyuki Kurasawa and Duncan MacIntosh, with Howard Ramos (Dalhousie) as moderator. A video recording of the event is now
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— Video On April 4, 2018, Stephanie Dick delivered a compelling talk at the University of King’s College, Halifax, NS on how the concept of the “human” has changed in artificial intelligence research from the Cold War era to the present. Dr. Dick argued that the early research “sought to explicitly reproduce human faculties in machines.” She
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