Meeting KI-Postdocs: 'What it's like to be another one'

"Philosophical zombies, data and the eternal question of the nature of qualia"
This Talk is part of the AI Research Group
(Dr. Johannes Lierfeld)

In the age of artificial intelligence our world view is increasingly mechanistic. Reductive materialism seems to be able to answer everything, since most aspects of our
lives appear to be representable in data. Cognition is thinking, thinking is brain activity, brain activity is either electrical or metabolic, and both forms of activity can be measured – hence, cognition can be measured.
Moreover, the term "mind reading" suggests that artificial intelligence systems can also predict our minds. Recommender systems even anticipate the users next item of interest,
and they do so with remarkable accuracy. However, it is nothing but interpretations.