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Bernardo Gonçalves

Turing scholar

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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 an Affiliate Researcher at the Center for AI of the University of São Paulo and a member of the Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Learning group. Recently, I’ve been a Visiting Fellow of King’s College and a Research Affiliate of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. I am about to join the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil, as a permanent Research Scientist by appointment of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation of the Federal Republic of Brazil. My most recent 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 - preprint)

‘Turing’s Test, a Beautiful Thought Experiment’ (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing)

‘What was the Turing test actually about?’ (Nature, Letter to the Editor)

The Turing Test Argument (New York and London: Routledge)

‘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)

‘Irony with a Point: Alan Turing and His Intelligent Machine Utopia’ (Philosophy & Technology)

‘The Turing Test is a Thought Experiment’ (Minds & Machines)

‘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.

As a referee, I have contributed to Artificial Intelligence Review, AI and Ethics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Philosophy & Technology, AI & Society, the Brazilian AI Conference (BRACIS), and other journals and conferences.

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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