2nd Conceptual Workshop in Chęciny, 10-12.05.2024
On May 10-12, 2024, the 2nd Conceptual Workshop of the Center for Advanced Studies of the Warsaw University of Technology in cooperation with the UW Centre for Systemic Risk Analysis was held at the UW European Center for Geological Education in Chęciny.
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss some of the key and very topical issues and challenges of our time, such as the challenges and risks associated with the development of AI, and to discuss these issues from the perspective of various scientific disciplines, both sciences and humanities. Representing various scientific fields, members of the UW's Centre for Systemic Risk Analysis had the opportunity to talk and discuss with prominent mathematicians from the Center for Advanced Studies of the Warsaw University of Technology and humanists, including from the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Speech topics:
- Well-being - in the light of considerations of ergonomics and self-awareness - Barbara Majerska [Warsaw University of Technology]
- Two views on complex systems - Stanislaw Janeczko [Center for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology]
- Classical statistical methods or machine learning - do you really have to choose ? - Jacek Rogala [Centre for Systemic Risk Analysis UW]
- Artificial intelligence and big data in ecology - how automated image analysis is changing the study of animal behavior - Piotr Bentkowski [Centre for Systemic Risk Analysis UW]
- Is the scientist an artist? A thing about beauty in nature, art and science - Stanisław Bajtlik [Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences]
- Human wisdom and artificial intelligence - Wieslaw Bartkowski [Centre for Systemic Risk Analysis UW]
- Application of AI in prospecting archaeological sites: is it possible? - Fabian Welc [Centre for Systemic Risk Analysis UW, Institute of Archaeology UKSW]
- What generative AI is doing to science - Sebastian Szymanski [Centre for Systemic Risk Analysis UW]
- Bots and advertising on the Internet - Agnieszka Jastrzebska [Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences PW]
- RNA sequence design - Grzegorz Łach [Centre for Systemic Risk Analysis UW, Faculty of Physics UW]
- "Invisible commodity"? Naturalistic methods in the study of medieval slavery - Marek Jankowiak [Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences].
