Mark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University and co-author of CoPilots for Linguists: AI, Constructions, and Frames (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Public Affairs Discussion Group
Talk: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Co-Intelligence
Speaker: Mark Turner
Friday, 6 September 2024, 12:30-1:45pm EDT
Dampeer Room, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University
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Description: To design, create, and evaluate the future of AI in human affairs, we need to understand how AI and Natural Intelligence truly work: their elements, operations, overlaps, constraints, limitations, and differences. The advantages of AI are evident: these systems are tireless, unneedy, immortal, effortlessly and reliably replicable across countless instances. They are nearly infallible in memory retention, capable of training each other, and can handle and analyze vast datasets that the world’s entire research community could not encounter in a lifetime, much less study and analyze. AI can also operate computationally in ways that are alien to human cognition, using methods of problem-solving that a human being cannot. On the other hand, all human beings are effortlessly creative in everyday situations, constantly adapting and innovating in ways that AI cannot so far mimic, and such creativity, far from being optional or remarkable, is indispensable to normal human performance. This talk will launch a discussion of present realities and future opportunities in areas such as decision-making, multimodal communication, linguistics, reasoning, complex problem-solving, law, medicine, biology, and education.
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Co-Intelligence Mark Turner, Ph.D. - Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University Friday September 6, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Meeting Both In-Person and by Zoom Dampeer Room, Second Floor of Kelvin Smith Library* Case Western Reserve University
Please join us as Professor Turner launches a discussion of present realities and future opportunities in areas such as decision-making, multimodal communication, linguistics, reasoning, complex problem-solving, law, medicine, biology, and education.
In-Person and Virtual Attendance
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The discussion begins at 12:30 p.m., but the Dampeer Room should be open no later than Noon. We try to have beverages and refreshments set up soon after that. Participants should be able to sign on to Zoom also by Noon. But please remember not much will be happening online until the talk begins at 12:30 pm. Please also remember to show identification when entering Kelvin Smith Library.
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