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Notes on the lecture in Nepal, 2025 

As part of a series of lectures by Lewibo we recently had a series of events with different researchers from the field of AI, Philosophy and Extended Reality. 

Nepal diaries (part 1 of 3): Lectures on AI and philosophy 

In the lecture with our third guest lecturer (Olha), students discussed how systematic thinking influences methodology and how it can be improved. As part of the lecture, some principles of systematic thinking were considered, drawing inspiration from the philosophical concepts of reductionism and categorization, which were well studied by Edgar Morin.

Another aspect discussed was a case study of the skill-mix algorithm used in GPT-4, where some linguistic skills were incorporated as a feature of the algorithm and achieved a more human-like, context-friendly output.

At the end of the lecture, Olha shared with students some practical advice and guidelines for young researchers on how to identify strategic methodologies for their future research.

AI and philosophy inspired image. “The Future of Philosophy” (detail) by Simone Nota.

Nepal diaries (part 2 of 3): Lectures on AI and Extended Reality (XR): Understanding the Technologies, Applications, and Challenges in the Age of the Metaverse

In her talk Prof. Dr. Janki Dodiya addressed differences between different XR Technologies, special features, and the role of XR in emerging metaverses. She cited the example key applications in education, psychology and space.

She also in her lecture talked about the current challenges of the technologies, explained and discussed some possible ways to overcome them with the audience. The lecture was held online.

Nepal diaries (part 3 of 3): Lectures on “AI and Language Models”

In her talk Miss Chung-Fan Tsai addressed how AI models are able to learn and engage in communication through a human language. As the university contact has mentioned, it has been particularly of importance to hear about the opinion of researchers in this area on this subject as various people are addressing this issue. The applications of this technology are numerous. AI-trained language models help us to achieve more accurate translations and to create chatbots that range from simple customer help on websites to more complex, such as

chatGPT and DeepSeek. The current challenges of the technology were discussed

with the audience. Despite the lecture being held online it was very popular.

The image on AI and philosophy is taken from https://dailynous.com/2022/11/23/ai-images-of-philosophers/