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SUMMARY:Pawel Romanczuk (Science of Intelligence)\, “Introduction to Complexity Science: Part II”
DESCRIPTION:Pawel Romanczuk holds a professorship on Complexity Research in Adaptive Systems at HU. For SCIoI\, he works at the interface of applied mathematics\, theoretical physics\, and behavioral biology. He focuses on collective behavior of organismic systems. His research bridges analytical and synthetic sciences to study self-organization\, evolutionary adaptations\, and functional dynamical behavior. \nThis talk will take place as part of SCIoI member Mohsen Raoufi’s seminar “Introduction to Collective Robotics: Where Complexity Meets Robotics\,” which provides an overview on the topic of collective robotics while exploring key areas like complexity science\, network science\, and engineering. \nThis talk will take place in person at SCIoI and will be available as a live stream.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pawel-romanczuk-science-of-intelligence-introduction-to-complexity-science-part-ii/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Karoline Wiesner (University of Potsdam)\, “Introduction to Complexity Science: Part I”
DESCRIPTION:Karoline Wiesner has been a Professor of Complexity Science at the Institute for Physics and Astronomy since 2021 and also serves as an external professor at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics at Uppsala University and spent her postdoctoral years at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and the University of California in Davis. At the University of Bristol\, UK\, she held positions as Assistant and later Associate Professor\, as well as being a visiting professor at Lund University\, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen\, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. \nThis talk will take place as part of SCIoI member Mohsen Raoufi’s seminar “Introduction to Collective Robotics: Where Complexity Meets Robotics\,” which provides an overview on the topic of collective robotics while exploring key areas like complexity science\, network science\, and engineering. \nThis talk will take place in person at SCIoI and will be available as a live stream. \n\nImage created with DALL-E by Maria Ott
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/karoline-wiesner-potsdam-university-introduction-to-complexity-science-part-i/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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SUMMARY:Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol)\, “Ethics in Collective Robotics”
DESCRIPTION:Alan Winfield is Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England\, Bristol. He conducts research in swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is especially interested in robots as working models of life\, evolution\, intelligence\, and culture. Alan is passionate about communicating science and technology. He holds an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship with the theme Intelligent Robots in Science and Society\, and blogs about robots\, open science and related topics at his blog. Alan is a leading expert in robot ethics and cognitive robotics. \nThis talk will take place as part of SCIoI member Mohsen Raoufi’s seminar “Introduction to Collective Robotics: Where Complexity Meets Robotics\,” which provides an overview on the topic of collective robotics while exploring key areas like complexity science\, network science\, and engineering. \nThis talk will take place in person at SCIoI and will be available as a live stream.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/alan-winfield-uwe-bristol-ethics-in-collective-robotics/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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SUMMARY:Heiko Hamann (Uni Konstanz\, SCIoI)\, “Introduction to Collective Robotics: A Formal Approach”
DESCRIPTION:Heiko Hamann is a roboticist with focus on collective systems. With his group he studies distributed robotics\, machine learning for robotics\, and bio-hybrid systems. In his collaboration with SCIoI member Pawel Romanczuk he investigates collective intelligence and especially the swarm robotics aspects of “Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in distributed collective decision making.” \nThis talk will take place as part of SCIoI member Mohsen Raoufi’s seminar “Introduction to Collective Robotics: Where Complexity Meets Robotics\,” which provides an overview on the topic of collective robotics while exploring key areas like complexity science\, network science\, and engineering. \nThis talk will be broadcasted live to the SCIoI premises under the following Link.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/heiko-hamann-uni-konstanz-scioi-introduction-to-collective-robotics-a-formal-approach/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, Marchstraße 23\, 10587 Berlin\, Room 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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SUMMARY:Katja Liebal (Universität Leipzig)\, "Comparative Approach to Human Cognition: Possibilities and Challenges"
DESCRIPTION:Aiming to understand human psychology and what makes humans “unique” benefits from a frame of reference against which to assess it. Comparing human psychology with that of other animals\, particularly our closest relatives\, nonhuman primates\, can provide such a frame of reference and thereby contribute to identifying the defining characteristics of the human species. Studying cognitive skills in nonhuman species\, however\, presents a variety of methodological and ethical challenges\, which I will address in my talk. After introducing the rationale of a comparative approach and highlighting some “hot topics” in current research with primates\, I will discuss some of the challenges of comparative research\, such as the impact of anthropomorphism and speciesism\, the difficulty of developing appropriate methods to study cognitive skills in non-linguistic species\, and the ethical boundaries of conducting such research with highly endangered species. \nThis talk will take place in person at SCIoI and on Zoom. \nPhoto by taopaodao on Unsplash.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/katja-liebaluniversitat-leipzig-comparative-approach-to-human-cognition-possibilities-and-challenges/
LOCATION:MAR 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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SUMMARY:Brian Scholl (Yale University)\, "Visual Intelligence: On the Unexpected Sophistication of Perception "
DESCRIPTION:It is natural to think of vision as relatively primitive\, compared to the richness of higher-level cognition. But recent work has revealed how perception is unexpectedly sophisticated along several related dimensions.  First\, recent work suggests that visual processing spontaneously extracts not only simple features such as color\, shape\, and motion\, but also properties more associated with higher-level thought — such as agency\, causal history\, and intuitive physics.  (Appreciating that a tower is about to fall\, for example — or that an object looks the way it does because it was crushed\, or that another agent is attending to us — seems more like perceiving a shape than proving a theorem.)  Second\, vision turns out to be selective in various sophisticated ways\, automatically discounting some information while highlighting properties of special import — such as information that categorically distinguishes different dynamic “event types” (e.g. bouncing\, rolling\, scooping\, and pouring).  Third\, the acuity of perception is specially tuned to provide high-resolution representations about high-importance information — such as the degree of pupil dilation in other people.  Here I’ll review recent work from our lab supporting each of these three related dimensions of “visual intelligence”.  This presentation will involve some results and some statistics\, but the key claims will also be illustrated with phenomenologically vivid demonstrations in which you’ll be able to directly experience the effects.  Collectively\, this work presents a new way to think about how perception delivers a rich interpretation of the world to the mind at large. \nThis talk will take place in person at SCIoI and on Zoom. \nPhoto by v2osk on Unsplash.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/brian-scholl-yale-university-visual-intelligence/
LOCATION:MAR 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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SUMMARY:Oren Forkosh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\, " Behavior\, Personality\, Social Structure\, and Emotions in Freely Behaving Groups of Mice and Other Animals"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn recent years\, the study of animal behavior in neuroscience has seen a significant shift towards more naturalistic and less intrusive methods. It is under these conditions that the true spectrum of animal behavior can be exhibited\, free from the artificial constraints and stressful conditions often imposed by traditional laboratory settings. In this talk\, I will focus on the interplay between behavior\, personality\, hierarchy\, and affective states as measured in our “social boxes”. These systems allow for the continuous and unattended tracking of groups of mice over extended periods and can automatically recognize and catalog over 100 distinct behaviors. A four-day experiment\, for example\, can potentially replace a myriad of classical tests typically used in neuroscience. Our system can also discern and record a ‘behavioral fingerprint’ for each mouse. These fingerprints reveal consistent traits—personalities—that are not only distinct between individuals but also persist over time. These behavioral fingerprints are also reflected in each animal’s gene expression. In addition\, by examining the interplay between behavior and personality across multiple timescales – from seconds to days – we can gain insights into the affective states of these animals. Finally\, expanding our research to other species\, including bats\, cows\, flies\, as well as humans\, allows us to develop a general understanding of behavior and personality. This comparative strategy holds promise for developing a ‘universal translator’ of behavioral and personality patterns\, paving the way for new comparative studies. These insights into the personalities and emotions of both humans and animals have the potential to significantly enhance our knowledge of the neurobiological underpinnings of behavior.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/oren-forkosh-the-hebrew-university-of-jerusalem-behavior-personality-social-structure-and-emotions-in-freely-behaving-groups-of-mice-and-other-animals/
LOCATION:MAR 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240613T160000
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SUMMARY:Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences)\, "Integrated Information Theory – Or Why Consciousness is Fundamentally Distinct from Intelligence"
DESCRIPTION:Humans not only can act intelligently in the world but consciously experience it\, such as the delectable taste of Nutella\, the sharp sting of an infected tooth\, or the terror and ecstasy of a near-death experience. I will discuss progress achieved in tracking the footprints of conscious experiences to the posterior regions of the cerebral cortex\, the outermost layer of the brain. I shall introduce the Integrated Information Theory (IIT). It explains in a principled manner which systems\, based on their structure\, are conscious and has been used to build devices to detect consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness. The theory asserts the existence of free will and predicts that consciousness is much more widespread than commonly assumed. On the other hand\, present digital computers using a von Neumann-like architectures\, though they may approach\, or even exceed\, human-level general intelligence\, will never be conscious. Consciousness is ultimately about being\, not about doing. \nChristof Koch is best known for his work exploring the physical basis of consciousness in humans\, animals\, and machines. A physicist and neurobiologist\, he was for more than a quarter of a century a professor of biology and engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. He remains at the Allen Institute as a Meritorious Investigator. He is also the Chief Scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation in Santa Monica\, seeking to understand consciousness\, its place in nature\, and how this knowledge can benefit all of humanity. He latest book\, Then I am Myself the World\, was just published. A vegetarian\, cyclist and dog lover\, Christof lives on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. For more information\, see www.christofkoch.com \n  \nThis talk will take place in person at SCIoI.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/christof-koch-allen-institute-for-brain-sciences-integrated-information-theory-or-why-consciousness-is-fundamentally-distinct-from-intelligence/
LOCATION:MAR 2.057
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240611T160000
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SUMMARY:Iain Couzin (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior & University of Konstanz)\, “Collective Intelligence in Animals and Robots”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nIn 1905 the biologist Edmund Selous wrote of his wonderment when observing a flock of starlings flying overhead “they circle; now dense like a polished roof\, now disseminated like the meshes of some vast all-heaven-sweeping net…wheeling\, rending\, darting…a madness in the sky”. He went on to speculate “They must think collectively\, all at the same time\, or at least in streaks or patches — a square yard or so of an idea\, a flash out of so many brains”. Today\, we still know relatively little about how social interactions connect brains together—and thus how sensing and information processing arises in such organismal collectives. Employing automated tracking\, computational reconstruction of sensory information\, biomimetic robotics\, and immersive ‘holographic’ virtual reality (VR) experiments\, I will explore geometric principles of collective decision-making that occur across scales of biological organization\, from neural dynamics to animal collectives. In doing so I will explain why classical models from non-linear statistical physics fail to account for collective animal behavior. I will will present several new theoretical frameworks\, including active inference and neural ring attractor networks\, that do account for key experimental findings and challenge long-held beliefs about how order can emerge from disorder within animal collectives. \nThis talk will take place in person at SCIoI and on Zoom. \nPhoto taken by https://www.uni-konstanz.de.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/iain-couzin-max-planck-institute-of-animal-behavior-university-of-konstanz/
CATEGORIES:Hot Topics in Intelligence Research
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