Online event organized by Gudio van Nispen. Featuring Vint Cerf, Joerg Blumtritt, Dr Tamás Dávid-Barrett, and Gregorio Ameyugo.
Date: Thursday, 23 April 2026
Time: 1700 to 1800 CEST, 1100 to 1200 ET
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What will history post AI look like? What will we see when we look back 50 years from now? Will there still be historic reality? Or will there be a multitude of alternative world-models, generated from synthetic data? Will the simulacra generated by our AI models drift away from reality, become their own reality?
I will talk about high-dimensional models of reality, simulation and synthetic data, simulacra and the hyperreal.
My work with privacy preserving model training and homomorphic encryption has been leading me along this journey, and confronted me with all kinds of weird stuff, like model poisoning and model collapse, the curse of dimensionality, reality hidden in low-dimensional submanifolds … and the question, whether the model after which we are chasing with AGI is the “Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it” ?
«Le simulacre n’est jamais ce qui cache la vérité – c’est la vérité qui cache qu’il n’y en a pas. Le simulacre est vrai.»