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Talk Title: Intelligence is Social
Many of the research in AI is devoted to create systems that perform tasks or functions for which we think humans need intelligence. Famous are things like playing chess or go, but classification and decision making are also among the popular ones. However, most of these endeavours are geared towards solving a problem and/or optimizing a solution individually. In real life intelligent behaviour is determined by our relationships and interactions with other people.
The consequences of taking this serious for AI research are twofold. If we try to understand human intelligence through computational systems, we should focus more attention towards the social aspects of intelligence. Secondly, for AI systems to function more autonomous in a human context they should be aware of the social aspects of intelligence in order to have better interactions with humans (and thus better perform heir tasks).
I will talk a bit about both aspects and the repercussions for AI research.
Frank Dignum got his PhD at the VU in Amsterdam in 1989. He has set up a CS department in Eswatini in 1990. Has worked in Lisbon, Eindhoven and Utrecht and since 2019 he is Wallenberg chair in socially aware AI at Umeå University in Sweden. Since 2022 he is the director of TAIGA (the centre for Transdisciplinary AI for the Good of All). He also has an affiliation to Utrecht University and he is an honorary professor of the University of Melbourne. Since 2014 he is a EurAI fellow. He is well known for his work on norms and his theory of social agents is employed in social simulations to support policy making and e-coaching. He has given invited lectures and seminars all over the world. He published 22 books and more than 400 papers.
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