The Beginning of Theory

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• Maya Indira Ganesh (University of Cambridge)
• Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:40-12:40
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OFBW63 - Machine Learning: Portents and Possibilities

In 2008, a Wired magazine op-ed famously declared that big data would spell the ‘end of theory’; when everything is just data points, then we would no longer need to care why humans did things, only to map that they did; so Farsi would be no different from Klingon, said the op-ed, and we wouldn’t need Psychology or  Sociology. We are now living in the moment prophesied by Wired as transformer models and diffusion models reshape the landscape of knowledge-production, teaching, and learning. This talk has two aims: to surface concerns about making knowledge and learning in a blended human-machine world; and second, to share how a Humanistic Social Scientist might consider the landscape of pedagogy in AI times. Taken together, they indicate the kinds of ethical, social, and cultural concerns associated with AI and ethics. 

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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