In order to cooperate with the university's undergraduate enrollment, on the morning of March 112023, Professor Tu Dongdong from the Institute of Humanities of ShanghaiTech University brought a lecture named The Integration of Humanities and Sciences: How does artificial intelligence study the ancient humans’ firing behavior? to the middle school students in Luoyang No.1 High School.
Artificial intelligence is the future of social development. In history ancient humans used the fire for multiple purposes.. How to combine the two prespecives? What can artificial intelligence help us to undertsnad the history and civilization? Professor Tu Dongdong introduced the principles and application scenarios of artificial intelligence. Taking Qesem Cave in Israel dating to 400,000 cal. BP as an example, he explained how scientists applied the method of artificial neural network to examine the temperature control when stone tools were heated.
ShanghaiTech University is a small-scale, high-level and international type of research university, which encourages the cross-integration of different disciplines. Professor Tu Dongdong's lecture is an example of the inter-disciplinary study between humanities and sciences.