Homo Sapiens ORGANISING COMMITTEE or Homo AI Christine Hill (AAGP, PPAA) Roslyn Glickfeld (APAS) Maryana Podreka (AAGP) Gurli Hughes (Administrative Manager) Baxter and Sawyer, “fully integrated collaborative robots… designed to execute tasks that have been Damien Pierce (Media) impractical to automate with traditional industrial robots... capable of making adaptive decisions as tasks run...” see: www.rethinkrobotics.com/sawyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_(robot) FREUD CONFERENCE BLOG Between now and the conference, we will be posting articles and media relevant to the conference as they arise. The blog allows you to engage in the conversation by posting comments Exploring the relationship or a reply: we look forward to your input. between Consciousness, The Freud Conference blog also provides Emotions and detailed CVs and publication lists of the speakers, Artificial Intelligence with links to their publications and sources. http://freudconference.wordpress.com a day with Professors Mark Solms EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION and Toby Walsh cut-off date: Wednesday April 3, 2019 8.30 – 18.00 Saturday 25th May The Melbourne Brain Centre Kenneth Myer Building 30 Royal Parade, Parkville BOOKING ENQUIRIES CONFERENCE ENQUIRIES CANCELLATION POLICY Freud Conference Administrator [email protected] Refunds (less $50.00 administration fee) PO Box 583 Mobile: 0411 556 205 will only be given for cancellations received by Bridge Road www.freudconference.com Monday 6th May, 2019. No refunds after this date. Richmond 3121 www.freudconference.com FruedC2019_DLbrochure_AI_FEB27_v7baxter.indd 1 10/03/19 4:04 PM FREUD CONFERENCE Homo Sapiens or Homo AI FREUD CONFERENCE 2019 exploring the relationship between consciousness, emotions & artificial intelligence 2019 08.30 Registration & Coffee/Tea ABOUT THE SPEAKERS 09.00– 9.10 Introduction and Welcome: 12.45 – 14.00 Lunch PROFESSOR MARK SOLMS is Director of Neuropsychology Dr Christine Hill at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, and the MORNING SESSIONS AFTERNOON SESSIONS recipient of numerous prizes and honours. He has published 350 articles 09.15 – 10.45 Chair: Dr Peter Smith 14.00 – 15.30 Chair: Helga Coulter in neuroscientific and psychoanalytic MARK SOLMS TOBY WALSH journals and authored eight books. His collected papers were published WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL MINDS recently as The Feeling Brain. Mark will review the major changes taking place Artificial Intelligence sets out to build what might be in our understanding of the brain mechanisms of thought of as “artificial” minds in silicon. He is the editor and translator of the forthcoming Revised consciousness. These views revolve mainly around Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works the role of the cortex vs the brainstem and the role How far are we towards this grand scientific challenge? of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and Complete Neuroscientific of cognition vs emotion. How might such “minds” differ from our Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols). His current scientific focus is the brain mechanisms of consciousness and the Consciousness was mainly regarded as a cortical biological minds? implications of these mechanisms for the understanding function but now there is an increasing realisation and treatment of psychopathology. that ‘feeling’ plays a central role in all consciousness. Will they match or even exceed what humans can do? The implications of these issues for psychoanalysis and psychiatry will be considered. And how do we program ethics into them? PROFESSOR TOBY WALSH is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at 15.30 – 15.50 Afternoon break 10.45 – 11.15 Morning tea the University of New South Wales and Data61. He was named by the 11.15 – 12.45 Chair: Eve Steel 15.50 – 17.00 Chair: Dr Rob Gordon Australian newspaper as one of the MARK SOLMS PANEL DISCUSSION “rock stars” of Australia’s digital MAKING A MIND Mark Solms and Toby Walsh will lead an revolution. Professor Walsh is a strong Continuing from the previous session, Mark will open forum on issues raised from all three advocate for limits to ensure AI is address the question, “Is it now possible to make presentations. used to improve our lives. artificial minds?” This, then, begs the question, He has been a leading voice in the discussion about “What Do We Mean By Mind?”. 17.00 – 18.00 Drinks & finger food autonomous weapons (aka “killer robots”), speaking at the UN in New York and Geneva on the topic. He will argue that a mind needs more than intelligence. It requires consciousness. He will discuss his recent He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and work in this area and consider the implications for recipient of the NSW Premier’s Prize for Excellence in the question “What Is Consciousness?”. Readings Bookstall will be available at the Conference Engineering and ICT. He appears regularly on TV and radio, and has authored two books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled “2062: The World that AI Made”. FruedC2019_DLbrochure_AI_FEB27_v7baxter.indd 2 10/03/19 4:04 PM.