BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260709T073639EDT-1435PjVnUu@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260709T113639Z DESCRIPTION:Computation May Be All You Need: Is Intelligence Convergent?\n \nBy Mark Daley\n\nFull professor / Department of Computer Science\, Weste rn University\n\nWith High-Level Panel of Leaders in Science\, Technology\ , On-the-Ground Action\, and Policy\n\nRegister & watch the webinar\n\nLar ge language models evolving from artificial intelligence and other recent digital capacity build-ing are eating the world by getting bigger. What hi gher order lessons might we extract from this unreasonable effec-tiveness of scaling? In this presentation\, I will return all the way to the origin of neural nets and review the foundational ambitions of McCulloch and Pit ts through the computationalist lens of the early program of Putnam and Fo dor. We then jump to the present\, adopting an empirical stance\, asking h ow LLMs challenge our notions of human creativity\, intelligence\, and per sonhood. Focussing on intelligence\, we take a brief detour to engage with Sutton’s “bitter les-son” (more computation is all you need)\, and survey known exemplars of intelligence. We question the existence of Aaron Sloma n’s “exotic minds” by suggesting that his space of possible minds is\, in fact\, degenerate. We close by pull-ing the thread of precision convergenc e through our discussion\, arriving at the Singular Intelligence Hypothe-s is. Discussion will bear on computational rationality as a key bridge betw een human and machine decision making and behavior.\n\nAbout the speaker\n \nMark Daley is the chief digital information officer at Western Universit y\, a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at Western Univ ersity\, with cross-appointments in multiple departments\, The Rotman Inst itute of Philosophy\, and The Western Institute for Neuroscience. He is al so a faculty affiliate of Toronto's Vector Institute for Artificial Intell igence. Mark has previously served as the Vice-President\, Research at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research(CIFAR)\, and Associate Vice-Pres ident (Research) and Special Advisor to the President at Western. Mark was the institutional administrative lead for the successful Canada First Res earch Excellent Fund proposal “BrainSCAN: Healthy Canadian Brains for Life ”. $66M. He has published over 100 research articles and has been awarded U.S\, European\, and Chinese patents for metabo-lomics profiling of concus sion and has US patents pending for COVID-19 diagnostics.\n\n\nAbout the s eries\n\nThe Precision Convergence series is launched to catalyze unique s ynergy between\, on the one hand\, novel partnerships across sciences\, se ctors and jurisdictions around targeted domains of real-world solutions\, and on the other hand\, a next generation convergence of AI with advanced research computing and other data and digital architectures such as PSC’s Bridges-2\, and supporting data sharing frameworks such as HuBMAP\, inform ing in a real time as possible the design\, deployment and monitoring of s olutions for adaptive real-world behaviour and context.\n\nThe Precision C onvergence Webinar Series is co-hosted by The 91 Centre for the Conver gence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at 91 and The Pittsbu rgh Supercomputing Center\, a joint computational research centre between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.\n\n \n DTSTART:20230531T150000Z DTEND:20230531T170000Z SUMMARY:MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar Series with Mark Daley URL:/desautels/channels/event/mcche-precision-converge nce-webinar-series-mark-daley-348409 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR