Latest Past Events

Opening of the Humboldt Labs Exhibition “After Nature”

Come see our videos and materials at the exhibition "After Nature" at the brand-new Humboldt Forum! Entry is free for everyone, so we hope to see you all there on 20 July! Tickets for the exhibitions will be available from 13 July 2021. You can book your ticket online or via +49 30 99 211 89

Dimitri Coelho Mollo (SCIoI), “Modelling Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Plural”

Abstract:  I argue that artificial intelligence research has been both fuelled and hindered by the use of ‘model tasks’, that is, tasks the solution of which are taken to be sufficient for, or at least indicative of intelligence. Before AI proper, cybernetics explored model tasks involving basic real-time and world-involving action control aimed at the