Ausblick

Wir bleiben vorerst online

Die Corona-Pandemie hat, dank der mittlerweile verfügbaren Impfstoffe, ihren Gipfel überschritten. In der Zeit, der Online-Veranstaltungen hat sich aber unser Teilnehmerkreis erheblich erweitert. Das Online-Format macht es möglich, dass Menschen aus ganz Deutschland, und teilweise darüber hinaus, problemlos und ohne lange Reisezeiten, an unseren Kolloquien teilnehmen können. Diesen Vorteil haben wir zu schätzen gelernt und werden deshalb das Online-Format bis auf weiteres beibehalten.

Da persönliche Treffen aber auch wichtig sind, gibt es in unregelmäßigen Abständen gelegentliche mehrtägige Treffen in einem Tagungshotel.

Prof. Dr. Dave Raggett, member of W3C/ERCIM

From logic to argumentation:
reasoning with imperfect knowledge in the era of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Human interactions and our understanding of the world is replete with uncertainty, imprecision, incomplete and inconsistent knowledge. Logicians have largely turned a blind eye to the challenges of imperfect knowledge. This is despite a long tradition of work on argumentation, stretching all the way back to Ancient Greece, that underpins courtroom proceedings, ethical guidelines, political discussion and everyday arguments.

Prof. Raggett will introduce the plausible knowledge notation as a potential solution that covers plausible inferences of properties and relationships, fuzzy scalars and quantifiers, along with analogical reasoning. He will then demonstrate that large language models are good at plausible reasoning, and examine the role of symbolic knowledge in the dawning era of artificial general intelligence. Computers are already better than us at dealing with complex knowledge on a large scale.

We can look forward to collaborative development of knowledge based systems using AGIs working hand in hand with human experts.

Today’s large language models are just the beginning of an intellectual revolution that will have huge and disruptive effects on work, education and play.