It is undisputed that people have always helped themselves with tools. Since the beginning of the technological age, the development of technical innovations has accelerated more and more. The boundary between tools and human beings is becoming increasingly blurred. Bionic and smart machines not only have user interfaces that get smaller and smaller, they are also easier to use as an extension of the human body.
The effects on our co-existence can only be guessed at. All the more important is the discussion on interactions between man and machine, and the underlying potentials and dangers that have to be considered.
Following Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, a completely new image of man emerges: “The Digital Ape”. In the eponymous by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, which formed the basis for the scientific evening, the author discusses how these new technologies change our lives and how we can best make use of them.
In the following discussion, Professor Alexander Görlach and Sir Nigel deepened the discourse from an anthropological and computer-scientific point of view and answered questions of the guests. A possible new religion and access to the data collected by AI were discussed: who can access data and who can use them for co-designing and developing technical innovations? What potentials of co-design and decision-making sovereignty over social
The evening ended with lively conversations and the chance to try Melodrive’s AI music system that composes an infinite stream of original, emotionally variable music in realtime. Find out more here.
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