Bernardo Gonçalves
For the past six years, my research has focused on the future of AI as envisioned by Alan Turing (1912-1954), his machines and games, the foundations and ethics of AI, the future of machines in society & nature. I have 12+ years of research & development experience in AI and data-centric systems in academia and industry.
I am a Staff Research Scientist at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), an institute of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation of the Federal Republic of Brazil. There I am founding the Turing Futures Lab. I am also Associate Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, and an Associate Researcher at the Center for AI of the University of São Paulo (C4AI-USP), where I participate in the Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Learning group. I was a Visiting Fellow (2023-2024) of King’s College, Cambridge, and a Research Affiliate of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. My former research project lasted four years and was based at the Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil. It was entitled “The Future of AI: the Logical Structure of Alan Turing’s Argument” (supported by The São Paulo Research Foundation under grant 2019/21489-4). The output of this project includes:
‘Passed the Turing Test: Living in Turing Futures’ (Intelligent Computing, a Science Partner Journal published by AAAS in affiliation with Zhejiang Lab - open access)
‘Turing’s Test, a Beautiful Thought Experiment’ (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, open access)
‘What was the Turing test actually about?’ (Nature, Letter to the Editor)
The Turing Test Argument (New York and London: Routledge).
Open-access review of the book by Harry Law in the British Journal for the History of Science.
‘Lady Lovelace’s Objection: The Turing-Hartree Disputes over the Meaning of Digital Computers, 1946-1951’ (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing - preprint.)
‘Galilean Resonances: The Role of Experiment in Turing’s Construction of Machine Intelligence’ (Annals of Science, open access)
‘Irony with a Point: Alan Turing and His Intelligent Machine Utopia’ (Philosophy & Technology, open access)
‘The Turing Test is a Thought Experiment’ (Minds & Machines, open access)
‘Can Machines Think? The Controversy that Led to the Turing Test’ (AI & Society - preprint)
Previously, I have worked in designing, developing, and deploying AI systems as a permanent Research Scientist at IBM Research (2016-2020) and contributed to large joint-development projects with oil & gas companies such as Galp Energy, Schlumberger, and Gazprom Neft.
My work has appeared in Minds & Machines, Artificial Intelligence, AI & Society, Philosophy & Technology, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Annals of Science, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering, and _Proceedings of the Very Large Databases_Endowment.
I earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of São Paulo, 2021), a Ph.D. in Computational Modeling (National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil, 2015), and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science (Federal University of Espírito Santo, 2009 and 2007). In 2016-2020, I was a permanent research scientist at IBM Research, and in 2015 I was a visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Michigan. I am a member of the Association for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Southern Cone (AFHIC) and a former member of the Science, Technology & Society group Scientiae Studia at the University of São Paulo (2017-2019), led by Galileo scholar Prof. Pablo Mariconda.
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