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The imagery of Dante’s Divine Comedy, particularly the Paradiso, offers powerful prompts to developing the sense of what it is to be intelligent. He wrote for modern times, he said. And now, as AI becomes more pervasive, he can help us understand how machine learning and human intuitions are very different capacities.
This was part of a talk given at the Scientific and Medical Network - scientificandmedical.net/webinars
The first part of the talk is online here - youtu.be/g7vrHWxMd0I
For more on Mark's work, particularly on Dante, see markvernon.com
The imagery of Dante’s Divine Comedy, particularly the Paradiso, offers powerful prompts to developing the sense of what it is to be intelligent. He wrote for modern times, he said. And now, as AI becomes more pervasive, he can help us understand how machine learning and human intuitions are very different capacities.
This was part of a talk given at the Scientific and Medical Network - scientificandmedical.net/webinars
The first part of the talk is online here - youtu.be/g7vrHWxMd0I
For more on Mark's work, particularly on Dante, see markvernon.com
