Bernardo Gonçalves
For the past five 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 currently based in Cambridge, UK, where I am a Visiting Fellow of King’s College and a Research Affiliate of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. My ongoing four-year research project at the Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil, is 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:
‘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)
Previously, I have worked in designing, developing, and deploying AI systems as a permanent research scientist at IBM Research (2016-2019) 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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