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    [1]    From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.7: what is not AI? (72)

    [2]    From: Claire Clivaz <Claire.Clivaz@sib.swiss>
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.7: what is not AI? (24)


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        Date: 2023-05-09 22:14:08+00:00
        From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.7: what is not AI?

Dear Willard,
Dear Gabor,

Thanks for posing such a question.

I would answer by posing an immediately subsequent question: is AI a form
of intelligence?
To put it in different words, could 'intelligence' - such a personal,
individually specific prerogative - be 'artificial'?
And, if so, what is the criterion according to which we are going to
measure such an 'intelligence'? Merely computational, or also emphatic and
emotional?
And then, to what extent AI can be able to compete with the human ability
of developing and expressing sentiments, emotions and feelings?

Many thanks for your attention in my questions!

Kind regards,
Marinella

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Marinella Testori Ph.D.
Linguistic Annotation and Lexicology for Latin

Il giorno mar 9 mag 2023 alle ore 07:10 Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org>
ha scritto:

>
>               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 7.
>         Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
>                       Hosted by DH-Cologne
>                        www.dhhumanist.org
>                 Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
>         Date: 2023-05-08 08:25:41+00:00
>         From: Gabor Toth <gabor.toth@maximilianeum.de>
>         Subject: What is NOT AI?
>
> Dear All,
>
>
> I recently learned about this fantastic educational resource on AI:
>
> https://buildingai.elementsofai.com/
>
> It gives an introduction into Bayesian statistics, vector spaces, linear
> regression, etc. These advanced mathematical tools have been used in
> science for decades or even more, though they were not called AI. I am
> wondering why we now call them AI or discuss them under the umbrella of AI?
>
> I understand that neural networks feature some kind of analogy with human
> cognition. But I do not understand how vector algebra and linear regression
> are for instance related to human intelligence (beyond the fact that they
> were developed or discovered by human intelligence).
>
> These are extremely powerful mathematical models that do facilitate our
> modern life; they can also get better by themselves ("learn") but what
> makes us think that they are adequate models / representation of
> intelligence?
>
> To be a bit provocative, it seems that any advanced computationally
> implemented mathematical model can be nowadays called AI. What is then AI
> and what is NOT AI? I am confused and I would love to hear what others
> think.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Gabor


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        Date: 2023-05-09 07:16:08+00:00
        From: Claire Clivaz <Claire.Clivaz@sib.swiss>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.7: what is not AI?

Dear Gabor, dear all,

I am reading with great interest all your thoughts on AI and give here my 2
cents in answer to Gabor’s question. As for me, I have an extensive definition
of AI, since from Antiquity, automatized intelligence provokes recurrent dreams
and fears. One will read with profit the 2020 book below, Ex Machina. Later, the
German short novel of Hoffman «The Sandman», written in 1816, is one of the
brilliant examples of this very old story, AI.

Annie Collognat, Bernadette Chopin, Ex Machina. Machines, automates et robots
dans l’Antiquité, Les Belles Lettres, 2020,
https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251450971/ex-machina

Kind greetings,

Claire Clivaz
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Amphipole 183 - Quartier Sorge, Dorigny – CH-1015 Lausanne
t +41 21 692 40 60<tel:+41216924060>
claire.clivaz@sib.swiss<mailto:claire.clivaz@sib.swiss>



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