"On Ways of Being": James Bridle in conversation with Audrey Borowski

Описание: What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans - or do we share it with other beings? Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, unrecognized. These other beings are the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us, and are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge - just as the new technologies we've built are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours.

James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Their writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. Their last book Ways of Being was published by Penguin Books in 2022.

Audrey Borowski is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at the University of Cambridge working on the philosophy of artificial intelligence. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and Aeon. Her first monograph Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant has been published by Princeton University Press.

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0:00:09 - Author's introduction
0:06:35 - Tech & hope
0:09:28 - The legacy of the enlightenment
0:14:14 - What is intelligence?
0:20:12 - How do we navigate our ever-changing world?
0:26:47 - Technological Ecology
0:29:48 - Complex composites
0:32:07 - How do we put the lessons of the book into practice?
0:37:02 - Audience Q&A