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Vito Trianni (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR Rome), “Emergence and Heterogeneity in Minimalist Robot Swarms”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Far-reaching perspectives in swarm robotics consider robots that are minimalist in their sensing, communication and computation, but are deployed in thousands to collaborate towards the accomplishment of tasks distributed in space and time. Generally speaking, future robot swarms might face harsh operating conditions where little communication is possible and no external infrastructure is available. These

External Event

SCIoI at 5th International Conference on Embodied Intelligence

On Zoom

This event brings together a wide range of speakers to discuss the challenges and opportunities in Embodied Intelligence research. The conference is structured with a morning session and afternoon session each day to accommodate different time zones. Each session includes plenary talks, panel discussions (including flash talks by leading researchers), and breakout sessions. The conference

For the Public

Girls’ Day 2025

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

What is intelligence, and how can research contribute to improving current technologies with insights from this work? At the Girls' Day with the Excellence Cluster Science of Intelligence, you'll find out how scientists from various disciplines research the topic of intelligence. Through interactive exchanges, you can learn how researchers work to understand intelligence from different

For the Public

Excellent Pub Quiz

Fahimi bar Skalitzer Str. 133, Berlin, Germany

Dive into the wonderful world of research of the seven Berlin Clusters of Excellence: from literature to chemistry, from politics to AI, you and your team can find answers for exciting and surprising questions from the clusters’ research areas. So seek fellows and think of your team name! Every quiz evening focuses on the research

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Thursday Morning Talk

Bojana Grujičić (Science of Intelligence), “Artificial possibilities”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Science often deals with issues pertaining to possibilities, contingencies and necessities, by engaging in thought experiments and modeling. This talk discusses how much deep learning can be helpful for navigating the possibility space for intelligence, adding to our scientific understanding of possibilities. One epistemically useful feature of neural networks is their runnability - they can

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Ralf Kurvers (MPI for Human Development), “Individual, social and ecological drivers of human collective foraging”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Foraging complexity and competitive social challenges are considered key drivers of human cognition. Yet, we still have a poor understanding of the decision-making mechanisms underlying foraging behavior, especially in social contexts. In this talk, I will combine immersive lab experiments, field work using high-resolution tracking, and computational and agent-based models to uncover the mechanisms guiding

Thursday Morning Talk

Adrien Doerig (Freie Universität), “High-level visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs, including objects, their spatial and semantic interrelations, and their interactions with the environment. However, a quantitative approach to capture this information remains elusive. I will present work where we show that LLM embeddings of scene captions successfully characterise brain activity evoked by viewing the natural scenes.

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Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia University), “Across the Swarm-Verse: the self-organization of animal collectives on the move”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

From the daily movement of primate troops to the mesmerizing murmurations of starling flocks in the sky, the dynamics of animal groups on the move fascinate us with the mystery of their underlying social interactions. In this talk, I will first showcase how we combine empirical data and computational models based on self-organization to understand

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Michael Levin (Tufts University), “Communication with intelligence in unconventional embodiments: bioelectricity as a case study”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Embodiment is critical for intelligence; however, the traditional concept of embodiment as movement in 3-dimensional space covers only a small slice of the way biology exploits embodiment. In this talk, I will present a framework for understanding intelligence more broadly, and show how the multiscale competency of bodies navigates many different kinds of spaces. I

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Pawel Romanczuk (Science of Intelligence)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More details to follow. This talk is part of David Mezey's course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior, ” a seminar on collective behavior research, combined with multiple interactive elements.     Image created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.

Distinguished Speaker Series

J. Kevin O’Regan (CNRS Paris), “How to make a machine that is conscious and really feels”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Despite current advances in artificial intelligence, many people remain convinced that machines are still far from being able to really experience, for example, the redness of a sunset, the pain of a pinprick, or what it's like to be sad. This "phenomenal" or "felt" aspect of consciousness seems outside the realm of science and impossible