Second seminar in the seminar series "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on AI & Culture: Art and Science In Conversation"
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Historians have a complicated relationship with causality and the idea that history is governed by laws as thus predictable is met with skepticism. In a short overview of the historiography on causality and prediction, Wevers will argue how insights from these debates offer future methodological directions in digital history for working with causality and prediction. Magliacane will discuss how in some cases we can learn causal relations from data, including learning a notion of causal variables from high-dimensional data like sequences of images, and how causality helps improve robustness in machine learning approaches.
Via this interdisciplinary encounter we will show where our fields (unknowingly) overlap and we also hope to highlight disagreements, fueling debate with the participants.
The seminar series will culminate in a roundtable discussion in June 2023 where we will ‘hack’ current imaginations/misconceptions, as well as methodologies of researching and applying AI in cultural contexts. More details to follow.
Melvin Wevers is Assistant Professor in Digital History at the University of Amsterdam.
Sara Magliacane is Assistant Professor of Informatics at the University of Amsterdam.
The seminars will be hybrid (in-person and Zoom).
Sweelinck Room
Institute for Advanced Study
Oude Turfmarkt 147
1012 GC Amsterdam
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on AI & Culture: Art and Science In Conversation is an interdisciplinary seminar series focused on bringing humanities scholars and computer scientists to the table to exchange critical perspectives on the intersections between AI and culture.
Across four sessions, the series aims to identify gaps in how different disciplines conceptualise AI in culture and culture in AI. We aim to find a common language as a first step towards establishing interdisciplinary collaboration.
The speakers represent diverse sections in UvA, including history, philosophy, film and media studies, cultural studies, complex systems, multimedia analytics, and machine learning.
The sessions will cover the following topics:
The seminar series will culminate in a roundtable discussion in June 2023 where we will ‘hack’ current imaginations/misconceptions, as well as methodologies of researching and applying AI in cultural contexts.