CAS-Gastvortrag

Prof. Schellenberg spricht auf Einladung der aktuellen CAS-Kohorte zum Thema „Self-Governance in Human and Machine Intelligence“. Ihr Vortrag steht im Kontext des Projektes der aktuellen Kohorte mit dem Titel: „Knowledge acquisition, representation and application in human minds and machines“.

Der Vortrag wird parallel auch auf Zoom übertragen, sodass auch eine digitale Teilnahme möglich ist. Die Zugangsdaten lauten wie folgt: https://uni-mannheim.zoom-x.de/j/64629738857. Sie werden nach dem Einwählen zunächst in den Warteraum geführt und dann zu Beginn des Vortrags zugeschaltet. 

Abstract des Gastvortrags:
Our capacity for reflection and self-governance allows us to introspect on our thoughts and preferences, engage in metacognition, and evaluate our progress on projects while reconfiguring our approach as needed. Despite being central to human intelligence, reflection has received marginal attention in developing artificial intelligence. There are burgeoning signs of an artificial equivalent of our capacity for reflection. To illustrate, so-called self-attention mechanisms and metacognition in Large Language Models, meta-reinformecemnt learning moduls, and self-improving systems can each be argued to be examples of systems that possess the capacity for reflection. However, in each case, the capacity is rigid in its scope compared our human capacity, and it developed as a side-effect of pursuing other goals. To date, no explicit attention has been directed at artificially replicating this central element of human intelligence. The paper argues that a general capacity for reflection and self-governance is key to bringing AI to the next level.