Toward a history of Kyiv scientific school of artificial intelligence

🎡Афіша Київ

⌚️2023-10-17 16:00:00 – 2023-10-17 18:00:00
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Our speaker: Benjamin Peters is the author of How Not to Network a Nation: the Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (MITP 2016) and the Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa (USA).

I will be speaking about my current book project on Soviet-era artificial intelligence research, welcoming comments and criticisms especially on what we might call the Kyiv school, especially around the Institute of Cybernetics.

The Computer is Not a Brain: Toward a Prehistory of Soviet Artificial Intelligence
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Brain Death: How Smart Minds Meet Their End
2. The Statistical Uncanny: The Growing Pains of Probability, Populations, and Targets
3. The Radiant Mind: Radio in Revolutionary and Wartime Soviet Union
4. The Canny Field: War, Embodiment, and the Absence of Anthropomorphism in Soviet Artificial Intelligence
5. Toward the Kyiv School of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract:
Tentatively titled The Computer is Not a Brain offers an alternative genealogy through the Soviet century to contemporary artificial intelligence and machine learning. Centered on interviews and archival resources drawn from Kyiv conducted before the pandemic and then the expanded invasion of Ukraine, it focuses on media theoretic and historical analyses of Soviet science, technology, literature, and culture, and it situates in this hidden humanities tradition a source of social critique for technology, society, and the environment. This book recovers a vibrant history and critical analysis of the ultimately tragic traditions in machine learning independent of the anthropocentrism of the titular computer-brain analogy, the technocapitalism, or the philosophical immaterialism so en vogue in contemporary AI discourse. Instead, this book looks to trace the colorful archipelago of institutional and intellectual debates and differences, amid a turbulent ocean of historical currents, that hold together what this book calls the smart environment tradition of Soviet artificial intelligence. The final two chapters, which will be the focus of my discussion, touch upon a variety of materials from what we might call the Kyiv School of Artificial Intelligence between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Languages of the event – EN, UKR, RUS.
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