Cracking the Code: Understanding Consciousness and AI

Public Research Project on Consciousness and AI with Creative Cluster, Chicago University and Institute for Future Technologies

Generative AI, ChatGPT and the like, have changed our life and will change it even more. Still, there are some questions that remain unanswered, many professionals avoiding them, some of them being: “what is AI?”, “does Artificial intelligence exist?” leading to more general “what is intelligence and consciousness?”.

At the fund table we will not try to answer these questions, rather providing up-to-date research findings from both neuroscience and data science, as both disciplines study similar subject-matters from very different angles.

Join us if you are curious about whether major attributes of consciousness can be identified and located in the brain; what the difference is between AI and ML, and challenges of neuroscience and data science of the day.

The round table will take place October 10 at 15.00. It will be held online and in English.

To register, please sign up using the link : https://lu.ma/bvlnzw4c

Roundtable moderator Vitaly Charushin, a member of the Advisory Board of Creative Cluster, evangelist of cross-scientificresearch.

The speakers for the round table are:

Clément Duhart, a director of the Institute for Future Technologies, established in 2019. Within this institute, he heads the Artificial Lives research group, with a primary focus on Human-Machine interfaces, mixed realities, and swarm robotics. With a background in embedded systems engineering, Clément Duhart holds a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Sorbonne and earned his doctorate in computer science from the University of Le Havre in 2016.

Dr. Peggy Mason, a Professor of Neurobiology, who received her BA and PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard. Dr. Mason has an outstanding educational career teaching medical students for 25 years. She authored a textbook Medical Neurobiology (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2017). Dr Mason was awarded the Quantrell Award, the US oldest prize for undergraduate teaching, in 2018.

Nikolaj Groeneweg, an entrepreneur and machine learning expert, withexperienceacrossthreecontinents. He buildscommunities, participates in think-tanks, and builds bridges betweenthe entrepreneurial ecosystems of France and Singapore withexperienceacrossthree continents. He holdsa MA in neuropsychology and a MSc in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked as CTO and innovation expert in healthcare, insurance and finance.