Generative AI’s impressive capabilities raise fundamental questions about intelligence and creativity, both human and machine. In this talk, Tor Ole will examine the parallels between human cognition and Generative AI through the concept of "conceptual blending," a framework that explains how new ideas emerge by merging existing ones. From Turing’s pioneering questions on machine intelligence to the mechanics of modern transformer models, he explores how embedding models encode culture, language, and meaning, enabling AI to replicate certain aspects of human thought and creativity.
We will serve refreshments, coffee and tea. Welcome!
The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE
The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series on Mondays at 13:00-14:00 every other week (odd week numbers) at CCSE.
The seminar will be maximum one hour, often closer to half an hour. It is an informal arena to present and discuss learning theory, educational research and teaching experiences within computational science. To cater to the highly heterogeneous backgrounds and interests of students, teachers and researchers in our environment, we aim for seminars that introduce listeners to new ideas within a broad spectrum of aspects, and that invites reflection and discussion.
Presentations need not be mature and polished - to the contrary we hope that as many as possible wants to share undigested observations and reflections in short presentations of varied form and topics. We hope to have enough contributions to frequently have the meetings as lightning talk sessions, where three different speakers will each give a 5-10-minute presentation followed by discussion.