Timo Honkela: Peace Machine: Peace from a difference perspective - Dialogue of a million people, 6 April 2017

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

The Third Conference onNational Dialogues       6th of April 2017                    Helsinki                     Finland

PEACE MACHINE:Peace from a Different Perspective –

Dialogue of a Million People

Timo HonkelaUniversity of Helsinki

Version 1.1includes phone fromthe conference

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

Timo HonkelaUniversity of Helsinki

6 April 2017

PEACE MACHINE:Dialogue of a Million People

and other means

Towards a Peaceful Future Helped byArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

[email protected] thanks Warm thanks

The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

PEACE MACHINE

MEANINGS EMOTIONS SOCIETY

Peace promotion concept based on

(1) practical needs and ideas,

(2) multidisciplinary research,

(3) modern digital technology and innovations

(machines are programmed to learn and help us) &

(4) wide scale citizen participation.

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

PEACE MACHINE

MEANINGS EMOTIONS SOCIETY

Main three parts of the

concept

Meaningtranslation

andcultural

interpretation

Promotingpeaceful andconstructiveemotionalsituations

Solutions tocomplex

economicaland societalquestions

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

PEACE MACHINE

MEANINGS

concept

Meaningtranslation

andcultural

interpretation

The focus in this presentation:

Computers can help peopleunderstand each other

better through new ways

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

Not only opinions but alsomeanings are problematic to people

always to agree upon

SNOW -WHITE?

WHITESNOW

STANDARDREASONABLECOMPUTATION

FAIRSAFE

INCLUSION

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

We do not always mean the same with our words – computers start to help us!

Example:Analysis of the meaning of”HEALTH” in some State of

the Union Addresses of US presidents(Honkela et al. 2012)

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

More thanone million

differentbooks

Vast collectionsof digital

documents

Growingcomputational

resources

Improvingmethods

(computerscience)

Humanunderstanding

(society,sciences:linguistics,cognitivescience,

sociology,etc etc)

Computational means willimprove out mutual understanding

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

Dialogue of a Million People

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Meaningnegotiators

Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland

Thank you for your attention!

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Timo Honkela,”PEACE MACHINE”, The Third Conference on National Dialogues, 5-6 April 2017, The House of the Estates, Helsinki, Finland