Latest Past Events

RECAP: AI for Health and Social Justice

Goodwill Industries 255 Horton St E, London

RECAP-Event-Rotman Story Research Engagement Collaborative Alliance with Partners (RECAP) and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy are co-hosting an event on AI for health and social justice, bringing together Western researchers and diverse individual and organization experts from across a variety of communities, industries, governments and not-for-profits to share perspectives, find common ground, build connections, and explore [...]

Rotman Research Retreat: AI & Democracy

KRESGE BUILDING 1960 Middlesex Dr., London

This retreat will bring together researchers from across disciplines and departments at Western to look ahead to future normative, political, and technological dimensions of anticipated impacts that AI will have on democracies. There is already a substantial body of scholarship exploring the ways in which new technologies have impacted democratic practices and institutions and [...]

Charles Ling: Turing Test, Chinese Room, AGI, and GPTs

Room 4190 - Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Western Interdisciplinary Research Building, Room 4190, London

Abstract: With the rapid development of large language models such as GPTs, many fundamental and philosophical issues of intelligence and the human mind can be re-visited.  In this talk, I will explore these related topics to foster potential collaboration between different disciplines. Register to Attend Turing Test, Chinese Room, AGI, and GPTs Speaker [...]