Ontology and Artificial Intelligence

PHI-609SEM-SMI

University at Buffalo

  • Semester
    Spring 2027
  • Instructor
  • Start Date
    01-20-2027
  • Total Credits
    3
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Artificial Intelligence is the subfield of Computer Science devoted to developing programs that enable computers to display behavior that can be characterized as intelligent. The ultimate goal of many AI researchers is to create what is called General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) by which is meant an artificial system that is as intelligent as a human being. Recent successes of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened a new era of popularization of AI. For the first time, AI tools have been created which are immediately available to the wider population, who for the first time can have real hands-on experience of what AI can do. We will address a series of issues which arise at the borderlines of ontology and AI, including: the role of ontology in the origination of AI in Stanford in the 1970s; current uses of ontologies in promoting the accuracy of AI models; the ontology of human, animal and machine intelligence; transhumanism and the mind-body problem; transhumanism and the idea of digital immortality.
Course Area: Philosophy
Level: Graduate
Dates: 01-20-2027 - 05-04-2027
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