LesArt. | Manuela Lenzen: Der elektronische Spiegel

In the organizer's words:

HUMAN THINKING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The electronic mirror" is about the adventure of understanding intelligence by recreating it. Science journalist Manuela Lenzen takes us on a journey through the dynamic field of research between psychology, neuroscience, biology, philosophy and AI research. Artificial intelligence is nowhere near as smart as we are. But that is precisely why it can give us insight into how intelligence really works and who we are.

While artificial intelligence is discussed up and down the country, it is hardly known that smart machines were never just there to do boring or dangerous work for us. From the very beginning, they were hypotheses about the functioning of the mind, electronic mirrors in whose distorted image humans can only recognize all the better what constitutes intelligence and what obviously does not. Artificial intelligence research began with the idea that it was only necessary to describe human thinking accurately enough to be able to build intelligent machines.

70 years later, disillusionment has set in: The biggest challenges are not in winning at chess or turning geometric figures in your mind, but in something as elusive as flexibility, creativity and common sense; in understanding a situation and reacting appropriately.