PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL MINDS

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ALBERTO GIOVANNI BIUSO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Understand the genesis, structure and objectives of Artificial Intelligence in the variety of its manifestations, modalities and implementations. Critically analyze, beyond technophilias and technophobias, the contribution that the investigation of AI can offer to the study of biological intelligence, social systems, technological devices.

Course Structure

Frontal lessons, which will focus on reading and analyzing texts

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

ON THE VIRTUAL

After a general introduction to the themes of Artificial Intelligence, the course will address the issue of virtual and its developments, with specific critical attention to the theme of the presence of bodymind in spacetime.

Textbook Information

-Renato Betti, Intelligenza Artificiale, in «Enciclopedia Einaudi», vol. 7, Einaudi 1979, pp. 828-862 (pp. 34; pdf)

-Eugenio Mazzarella, Contro Metaverso. Salvare la presenza, Mimesis 2022, pp. 142

-Stefano Isola, A fin di bene: il nuovo potere della ragione artificiale, Asterios Editore, Trieste 2023, pp. 157

-Alberto G. Biuso, Presenza e realtà Sul virtuale, Dialoghi Mediterranei, n. 62, july-august 2023, pp. 27-33 (pdf); Mutamenti politici e Intelligenza Artificiale, Dialoghi Mediterranei, N. 66, march-april 2024, pp. 30-36 (pdf)

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
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