Seminar at IEEN on the Ethics of Research in Artificial Neuronal Networks
13.04.2021
13.04.2021
On the 19th of April 2021, the SPINTECH project and the Association of Physicists of Moldova (SFM) are organising a seminar in Chișinău (Moldova). The aim of the seminar is to discuss a new report recently published at national level: “Quo Vadis? Ethics of Scientific Research: Artificial Neural Networks”.
An artificial neural network (ANN) or a brain-like computer with a non-von Neumann architecture surpasses the speed of neurons in the human brain (e.g. a biological neural network in terms of switching speed). For a number of tasks, the ANN will become an extremely useful tool, such as air traffic control. Tragic mistakes of air controllers are known due to their fatigue and overload and ANN does not know such fatigue. It can accurately manage air flows for days and months without interruption. But other applications of artificial intelligence systems might also benefit from ANN including virusological genetic engineering or militarization of space.
70 years ago, the American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov formulated three ethical laws of robotics - a code of rules for robots. Already at that time, he identified problems we are facing nowadays and they are becoming more and more urgent - as the capabilities of neural networks and artificial intelligence systems are developing. In this seminar, we will get acquainted with the basic principles of the construction and functioning of the first artificial neural network: the Perceptron.
Information on the event:
An artificial neural network (ANN) or a brain-like computer with a non-von Neumann architecture surpasses the speed of neurons in the human brain (e.g. a biological neural network in terms of switching speed). For a number of tasks, the ANN will become an extremely useful tool, such as air traffic control. Tragic mistakes of air controllers are known due to their fatigue and overload and ANN does not know such fatigue. It can accurately manage air flows for days and months without interruption. But other applications of artificial intelligence systems might also benefit from ANN including virusological genetic engineering or militarization of space.
70 years ago, the American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov formulated three ethical laws of robotics - a code of rules for robots. Already at that time, he identified problems we are facing nowadays and they are becoming more and more urgent - as the capabilities of neural networks and artificial intelligence systems are developing. In this seminar, we will get acquainted with the basic principles of the construction and functioning of the first artificial neural network: the Perceptron.
Information on the event:
- Monday, 19 April 2021, Time: 11:00
- Place: Institute of Electronic Engineering and Nanotechnology
- Zoom videoconferencing