Beyond Quantity: Research with Subsymbolic AI

22 October 2022
Sorbonne University, Paris

Prof. Matteo Pasquinelli will deliver a keynote address at a three-day conference about the impact of artificial intelligence on scientific research.

“Accounts of machine learning, especially artificial neural networks, are currently considered to be the dominant approach in artificial intelligence. How does this form of AI challenge research, ways of knowing, and scientific practices? What problems need to be identified and what critical perspectives are appropriate to describe and evaluate the ambivalences, potentials, and risks of AI technologies, not least in their historical perspective? In particular, the participants of the conference ask how AI can be critically analyzed beyond its relation to big data and in general with a view to challenges of qualities, not quantities.”