Semester
Topic
:
Embodied
Intelligences
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While
discourses
around
AI
oscillate
between
fears
of
Artificial
Intelligences
taking
over
,
and
phantasies
of
universal
optimisation
,
power
and
control
,
most
current
AI
systems
actually
address
closely
defined
problems
in
very
specific
domains
.
They
usually
represent
these
problems
in
symbolic
or
statistical
,
mathematical
ways
,
in
silico
.
Concepts
of
“
Intelligence
”
originally
developed
from
observing
and
describing
living
beings
,
who
sense
their
physical
environment
,
and
use
their
bodies
to
interact
with
other
beings
and
things
in
ways
that
seem
purposeful
,
hence
“
intelligent
”.
Cybernetics
began
with
making
technical
devices
that
show
such
behaviors
.
What
forms
of
embodied
intelligences
can
we
imagine
,
build
little
models
of
,
and
experiment
with
,
in
vivo
?
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The
semester
topic
"
Embodied
Intelligences
"
will
be
addressed
from
contrasting
perspectives
in
multiple
courses
in
our
context
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Individual
meetings
:
Mon
10
-
18
,
Tue
10
-
14h
,
by
email
appointment
.
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Tutors
:
Chunli
Wang
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jennywang079
@
gmail
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com
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Fang
Tsai
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fangtsai15
@
gmail
.
com