“Impactos da tecnologia na saúde mental” – Arthur Lima | Café Filosófico CPFL ▶️

Chegamos a tal ponto no avanço tecnológico que são desenvolvidos novos aplicativos para nos ajudar a parar de usar aplicativos. Enquanto a tecnologia prospera, como fica a nossa saúde mental? O cirurgião-dentista e Mestre em Saúde, Ambiente e Trabalho, Arthur Lima, ministra a palestra Impactos da Tecnologia na Saúde Mental. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEAr8gRnDZc&ab_channel=Caf%C3%A9Filos%C3%B3ficoCPFL Até que ponto podemos…

“Wisdom in the age of AI: a philosophical quest” – John Vervaeke, Jonathan Pageau, Ken Lowry, DC Schindler ▶️

Must we really entertain the suggestion that the inventors of artificial intelligence had thrust themselves into the vacant position of God the maker? But then shouldn’t they have followed God’s lead and banked on the resistance of their creatures? Is there an original sin for machines? Should machines believe in their humans, or will we…

Who wants to live forever? | The Guardian | Death Land #1 ▶️

November 7, 2019 | What if you could cheat death and live forever? To people in the radical life extension movement, immortality is a real possibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF9TqEqujrE Leah Green spends a long weekend at RAADfest, a meeting of scientists, activists and ordinary people who want to extend the human lifespan. So is reversing your age…

Robot Sophia: ‘Not a thing’ could stop a robot takeover | Al Jazeera ▶️

In view of this evidently inexorable event, the question arises, what remains of the eternal light of the soul once the artificial lights have been turned on? What remains of it after the soul has ceded a good part of its former luminosity to the more and more clever artifacts of the world, to computerized…

How dangerous are algorithms? | DW documentary ▶️

Recently, a Brazilian woman prompted an AI art generator to create the illustration of an African-American woman with an afro in a favela, Disney style. To her surprise, the character was depicted holding a pistol. Algorithms are increasingly determining our lives and influencing our momentous decisions. At first glance, they seem logical and unbiased. But…

Is the control of knowledge power? | DW documentary ▶️

What is presented here under a title that alludes to the great traditions is a meditation on the sentence "Knowledge is power." This is the sentence that dug the grave of philosophy in the nineteenth century. It sums up philosophy and is at the same time its first confession, with which the century-long agony begins.…

“AI and the quest for immortality – are we defeating death?” | DW documentary ▶️

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) make it possible for us to live forever? Or at least, be preserved for posterity? What are the current developments in the fields of artificial intelligence and biotechnology? Will humanity exist without biological bodies, in the near future? Could humans and AI merge into one being? This documentary explores these questions,…

Günther Anders et L’Obsolescence de l’homme | Le Philoscope ▶️

Présentation de la pensée de Günther Anders à partir du problème de la bombe atomique. Cette première vidéo de la série est consacrée à la contextualisation de l'ouvrage majeur du philosophe : L'Obsolescence de l'homme. Nous y abordons la biographie de l'auteur et le sens de la « critique de l'ère de la technique »…

“On Günther Anders and Promethean shame” – Babette BABICH ▶️

As for the "sources of life," which the gods, according to Hesiod again, have hidden from us, it was Prometheus who took it upon himself to reveal them. Responsible for all our misfortunes, he was quite aware of being so, though he prided himself in his lucidity. The remarks Aeschylus puts in his mouth are…

AI: Does artificial intelligence threaten our human identity? | DW documentary ▶️

Creativity. Emotions. Artificial intelligence is pushing further and further into primal human domains. The existential question arises: What actually makes us what we are, when the uniqueness of the human being is challenged? For millennia, we humans saw ourselves as the pinnacle of creation, because only we could create art, talk to each other, play…