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SUMMARY:Dimitri Coelho Mollo (SCIoI)\, “Modelling Intelligence: The Good\, the Bad\, and the Plural”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  I argue that artificial intelligence research has been both fuelled and hindered by the use of ‘model tasks’\, that is\, tasks the solution of which are taken to be sufficient for\, or at least indicative of intelligence. Before AI proper\, cybernetics explored model tasks involving basic real-time and world-involving action control aimed at the maintenance of homeostasis\, an approach echoed more recently by the embodied AI movement. Logicist AI\, in contrast\, took as model tasks for intelligence the solution of abstract problems\, such as theorem-proving and proficiency in combinatorially complex games\, chess having pride of place. Connectionist AI – including the current deep learning wave – despite privileging model tasks tied to learning from ‘experience’\, shares this focus on abstract\, disembodied behaviours as key to intelligence\, with particular effort being done in language processing\, categorisation\, and combinatorially complex games\, such as Go. Reliance on model tasks has led to considerable progress in solving those specific tasks\, but against expectation they did not lead to theoretical insights about the nature of intelligence in general\, and how to build it. This outcome\, I argue\, is in part due to the failure of recognising the limited scope of model tasks\, as well as the abstractions and idealisations of real-world intelligent behaviour that they embody. All mainstream frameworks in AI research\, in brief\, focus on circumscribed\, idealised models of intelligent behaviour\, those for which the respective approaches tend to generate cumulative progress and satisfactory solutions. Such models\, however\, abstract or idealise away important features of intelligence\, and\, if unchecked\, close off potentially rewarding paths of research. Bringing to the fore the limitations tied to such model task choices\, as well as the abstractions and idealisation involved in each\, I argue\, opens the way for a more integrative and plural approach to AI. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/thursday-morning-talk-work-in-progress-dimitri-coelho-mollo-scioi-modelling-intelligence-the-good-the-bad-and-the-plural/
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210701T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210701T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T083722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095530Z
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SUMMARY:Guillermo Gallego (Science of Intelligence)\, “Current Status of Event-Based Vision Research”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nEvent-based cameras\, also called neuromorphic cameras or silicon retinas\, are novel vision sensors that mimic functions from the human retina and offer potential advantages over traditional cameras (low latency\, high speed\, high dynamic range\, bandwidth savings\, low power\, etc.). My previous talk was about event-based cameras for Spatial AI. In this talk I will provide an overview of how event-based cameras are becoming more and more widely spread in multiple applications (monitoring\, tracking\, counting\, recognition\, etc.). \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions) \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-guillermo-gallego/
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210701T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210701T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210526T105942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095539Z
UID:10226-1625133600-1625137200@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Rasmus Rothe\, PhD (Merantix)\, “How To Build a (Deep Tech) Startup”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Rasmus Rothe is Co-Founder at Merantix\, the Artificial Intelligent Venture Studio. In this talk he will give insight into how a deep tech startup is built via ideation\, incubation and scaling\, and the specifics and challenges of working with technology AI in the process. \nBIO: Rasmus Rothe is the co-founder and CTO of Berlin-based Merantix\, the world’s first venture studio for AI\, co-initioator of the AI Campus Berlin\, the leading AI community hub in Berlin\, and a renowned deep learning researcher. He has published over 15 academic papers with more than 1000 citations on deep learning while attending Oxford\, Princeton\, and ETH Zurich\, where he received his Ph.D and launched a face recognition service with 150m+ users. In 2019\, he was featured on Forbes “30 under 30”. Rasmus is a founding board member of the German Association of AI\, devising and implementing the national AI strategy in close cooperation with the German government. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/thursday-morning-talk-rasmus-rothe-phd-merantix-how-to-build-a-deep-tech-startup/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210624T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210624T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210607T113648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095548Z
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SUMMARY:Kou Murayama (Universität Tübingen)\, “A Reward-Learning Framework of Knowledge Acquisition: How We Can Integrate the Concepts of Curiosity\, Interest\, and Intrinsic-Extrinsic Rewards.”
DESCRIPTION:Recent years have seen a considerable surge of research on interest-based engagement\, examining how and why people are engaged in activities without relying on extrinsic rewards. However\, the field of inquiry has been somewhat segregated into three different research traditions which have been developed relatively independently — research on curiosity\, interest\, and trait curiosity/interest. The current talk sets out an integrative perspective; the reward-learning framework of knowledge acquisition. This conceptual framework takes on the basic premise of existing reward-learning models of information seeking: that knowledge acquisition serves as an inherent reward\, which reinforces people’s information-seeking behavior through a reward-learning process. However\, the framework reveals how the knowledge-acquisition process is sustained and boosted over a long period of time in real-life settings\, allowing us to integrate the different research traditions within reward-learning models. The framework also characterizes the knowledge-acquisition process with four distinct features that are not present in the reward-learning process with extrinsic rewards — (1) cumulativeness\, (2) selectivity\, (3) vulnerability\, and (4) under-appreciation. The talk describes some evidence from our lab supporting these claims. \nHosted by Rebecca Lazarides \nSpeaker website: https://koumurayama.com/people.php \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/distingushed-speaker-series-kou-murayama-universitat-tubingen-hosted-by-rebecca-lazarides/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210617T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210617T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T082237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095557Z
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Lazarides (Science of Intelligente)\, “Learning in Social Interaction – Emotions\, Motivation and Adaptive Learning Support”
DESCRIPTION: ABSTRACT: Central theories of learning in human agents emphasize that the quality of instruction and interaction between agents is of high importance for effective knowledge transfer. On the other side\, within-agent characteristics such as a certain level of emotion and motivation is required to participate in social interactions. Consequently\, the interplay between characteristics of social interactions and characteritics of learners influences learning in a way that might speed up knowledge transfer. In the PI lecture\, key principles of learning in humans from the perspective of research in motivational and intructional psychology are reviewed and possible transfers to synthetic agents are discussed. Challenges of understanding human learning in social interaction will be illustrated in an overview of related project in SCIoI that address questions of emotions in social learning. \n\n\nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-rebecca-lazarides/
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210617T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210617T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210429T080929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T093732Z
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SUMMARY:Jose Hernandez-Orallo (Valencia/Cambridge)\, "The Generality of Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Task Difficulty as the Elephant in the Room"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Understanding and recreating intelligence is possibly the biggest scientific challenge of our time. Evolution has produced organisms that are highly specialised for some cognitive tasks\, whereas others present what has been called general intelligence\, with humans identified as the paragon. Artificial intelligence (AI)\, despite decades of efforts to achieve generality\, is still specialised. It is a major research question to disentangle the notion of general intelligence\, by clearly determining what generality is and how it can be measured for individuals rather than populations. Under limited resources\, we must overhaul the classical yet misleading interpretation of general intelligence as ‘success in all sorts of situations’ and introduce a new view of generality as ‘comprehensive performance up to a level of difficulty’. The degree of generality then refers to the way an agent’s capability is distributed as a function of task difficulty\, according to environmental and cognitive pressures. This dissects the notion of general intelligence into two non-populational measures\, generality and capability. We interpret and apply these measures with humans\, non-human animals and AI systems. The choice of the difficulty function now plays a prominent role in this new conception of generality\, which brings a quantitative tool for shedding light on long-standing questions about the evolution of general intelligence and the evaluation of progress in Artificial General Intelligence. \nHosted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions) \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/thursday-morning-talk-jose-hernandez-orallo-valencia-cambridge-the-generality-of-natural-and-artificial-intelligence-task-difficulty-as-the-elephant-in-the-room/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210610T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210610T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210420T112103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T092525Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Manuel Cebrian\, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development: "Time-critical Social Mobilization"
DESCRIPTION:Title: Time-Critical Social Mobilization \nAbstract: This seminar explores the physical\, behavioral\, and computational limits of crowd-assembly for problem-solving. I follow several real-world experiments where we utilized social media to mobilize the\nmasses in tasks of unprecedented complexity. From finding red weather balloons to locating thieves in distant cities to reconstructing shredded classified documents\, the potential of crowdsourcing is real\, but so are exploitation\, sabotage\, and asymmetric incentives that can undermine the power of crowds. \nBio: Manuel Cebrian is a Max Planck Research Group Leader with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development\, where he develops computational and network preparedness against emergent threats. Previously\, Manuel was a researcher at MIT\, CSIRO\, and the University of California San Diego. His scientific research draws on approaches from the physics of complex systems\, data-driven simulation\, and operations research. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/talk-manuel-cebrian-max-planck-institute-for-human-development-time-critical-social-mobilization/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210605T220000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210605T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210526T111215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T104513Z
UID:10240-1622930400-1622934000@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:LNDW2021: Ralf Kurvers and Pawel Romanczuk: "Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity? Swarm intelligence in fish and humans"
DESCRIPTION:Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity? Swarm intelligence in fish and humans (5 June\, 10pm) \nIn this talk\, Pawel Romanczuk and Ralf Kurvers from our Excellence Cluster will explore swarm intelligence in fish and humans\, investigating the role of single individuals and social interactions in collective decisions\, also exploring when collectives make good decisions\, and when they go wrong.\nThe Zoom Link for this talk will be available on 5 June on this page\, so stay tuned!
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/lndw2021-ralf-kurvers-and-pawel-romanczuk-collective-intelligence-or-collective-stupidity-swarm-intelligence-in-fish-and-humans/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210605T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210605T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210526T110926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T084159Z
UID:10236-1622921400-1622930400@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:LNDW2021: SCIoI's Science Pub Quiz
DESCRIPTION:The SCIoI Science Pub Quiz (7:30–ca.10pm) \nJoin us for a fun evening with Science of Intelligence (SCIoI) and sign up for this special edition of the Science Pub Quiz\, organized with SCIoI! \nWhat is intelligence? Do beets float in water? Why should you pet your basil? We will be joined by Aravind Battaje and Lynn Schmittwilken\, SCIoI researchers in the fields of neurosciences and robotics\, who will tell us about their latest research and answer your most burning questions about brains and how computers can perceive the world. The event will be held in English and German and is aimed at scientists and non-scientists alike – so sign up for an evening of scientifically verified fun! \nWe are looking forward to seeing you!\nREGISTER NOW\, either individually or as a team\, on www.scipubquiz.de/register
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/lndw2021-sciois-science-pub-quiz/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210605T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210605T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210526T111040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T104522Z
UID:10238-1622917800-1622919600@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:LNDW 2021: David Bierbach\, "ROBOFISH: Mit einem Fischroboter das Schwarmverhalten verstehen"
DESCRIPTION:ROBOFISH: Mit einem Fischroboter das Schwarmverhalten verstehen (in German\, at 6:30pm and at 9:30pm)\n \nUm das Gruppenverhalten von Fischen zu studieren\, haben wir unter Beteiligung der FU\, HU und TU sowie des Leibniz-Instituts für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) einen Roboterfisch gebaut. Dieser ist einem Guppy nachempfunden und wird von lebenden Guppys als Artgenosse akzeptiert. Mit dem Roboter ist es nun möglich\, ein Leittier in eine Guppy-Gruppe „einzuschleusen” und gezielt zu steuern. Dank einer weltweit einzigartigen\, doppelten Videoaufnahmetechnik kann der Roboter in der Gruppe stets lokalisiert werden. Er kann nicht nur über die Tastatur gesteuert werden\, sondern nutzt die Positionsinformation der lebenden Fische\, um seine Schwimmrichtung automatisch anzupassen – verhält sich also interaktiv\, ähnlich wie ein lebender Guppy.
 Dr. David Bierbach\, Mitarbeiter der HU und Mitglied im Excellence-Cluster „Science of Intelligence“ (www.scienceofintelligence.de) wird in einem spannenden 30-minuten Vortrag den Robofish leicht verständlich für alle Altersgruppen präsentieren. Der Vortrag findet zweimal statt\, um 18:30 und um 21:30.\nThe Zoom Link for this talk will be available on 5 June on this page\, so stay tuned! 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/lndw-2021-david-bierbach-robofish-mit-einem-fischroboter-das-schwarmverhalten-verstehen/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210603T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210603T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T082134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095619Z
UID:9581-1622736000-1622741400@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Pawel Romanczuk (Science of Intelligence)\, “Is Intelligence Critical? Can Magnets Teach Us Anything About Brains and Swarms?”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nMore than three decades ago\, it was proposed that certain natural systems can be viewed as self-organized critical systems\, which self-tune themselves to special regions in parameter space close to so-called critical points\, where the behavior of a system exhibits a qualitative change at the macroscopic scale\, i.e. it undergoes a phase transition. Over the years\, theoretical research has shown that various aspects of collective computation become optimal at criticality and it has been conjectured that distributed information processing systems in biology such as the brain or animal groups should operate at\, or close to criticality. In this lecture\, I will give a brief introduction to the concept of criticality\, give a short overview over some selected theoretical studies on optimal information processing at criticality\, as well as empirical evidence for the ‘criticality hypothesis’ from neuronal dynamics and collective behavior of animals\, including some of our recent work on the topic. I will close with a critical discussion on criticality in the context of collective information processing. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-pawel-romanczuk/
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210527T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210527T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210426T083427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095629Z
UID:10091-1622131200-1622138400@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Antje Nuthmann (University of Kiel)\, “Real-World Scene Perception and Search From Foveal to Peripheral Vision”
DESCRIPTION:It is a commonly held assumption that the fovea is where the interesting action occurs. To scrutinize this assumption\, we conducted a series of experiments that addressed the following question: How important are the different regions of the visual field for gaze guidance in everyday visual-cognitive tasks? Following on from classic findings for sentence reading\, I will present key results from various experiments in which observers had to search for a target within static or dynamic images of real-world scenes. Each scene image contained exactly one target\, which was either contextually relevant (e.g.\, “Look for the apple”) or not (e.g.\, “Look for the ‘T’”). Gaze-contingent scotomas were used to selectively deny information processing in the fovea\, parafovea\, or periphery. Overall\, the results suggest that foveal vision is less important and peripheral vision is more important for scene perception and search than previously thought. The importance of foveal vision was found to depend on the specific requirements of the task. Finally\, when observers searched for a static target in dynamic scenes\, only their very first saccade was guided by task-irrelevant motion in extrafoveal and peripheral vision.\n\n(Photo © Jürgen Haacks\, Uni Kiel)\nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/distinguished-speaker-series-antje-nuthmann-university-of-kiel-real-world-scene-perception-and-search-from-foveal-to-peripheral-vision/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210520T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210520T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T082025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T104540Z
UID:9579-1621526400-1621531800@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Marc Toussaint (Science of Intelligence)\, "Do We Need Reasoning?"
DESCRIPTION:Reasoning (or planning\, rational decision making) seems a core aspect of intelligence — but what exactly does that mean? If we observe clever behavior in an animal\, can we claim it is based on reasoning? And doesn’t the success of deep RL show us that we (as engineers) do not need reasoning? I’ll discuss reasoning as a means to represent behavior and what the point of that might be. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-marc-toussaint/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210506T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210506T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T081919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T104548Z
UID:9577-1620316800-1620322200@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Martin Rolfs (Science of Intelligence)\, "Looking for Action in Perception"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nActions affect perception directly and in multiple ways\, exerting their influence (1) by modifying parts of the external world\, (2) through internal processes accompanying movement preparation\, and (3) through the sensory consequences of moving the sensory surface itself (i.e.\, in vision\, the retina). To understand these influences\, psychology and neuroscience have long recognized the necessity to study perception in active observers. Despite this recognition\, the consequences of moving the sensory surface itself (point 3 above) have been considered a nuisance\, to the extent that perceptual processing — across sensory modalities — needs to be attenuated or suppressed during movement execution. I will discuss recent evidence that studying the immediate sensory consequences as a functional element of perceptual processes is a fruitful approach that may lead to a different understanding of the mechanisms underlying perception. The goal is to develop a set of hallmarks of active perceptual systems\, which may represent different degrees to which actions are ingrained into the perceptual processing architecture. I will propose a recipe for testing this proposal in active observers suggesting\, perhaps counterintuitively\, that a deeper understanding of perception requires shifting the focus of perceptual research to motor control and action kinematics. PS: Most of these ideas will be half-baked at the time of presentation. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-martin-rolfs/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210429T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210429T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T081803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T092630Z
UID:9574-1619712000-1619719200@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Peter Dayan\, (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics)\, "Peril\, Prudence and Planning as Risk\, Avoidance and Worry"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Peter Dayan\, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics\, https://www.mpg.de/12309357/biologische-kybernetik-dayan\nHosted by Henning Sprekeler; moderated by Robert Tjarko Lange \nPeril\, Prudence and Planning as Risk\, Avoidance and Worry\nRisk occupies a central role in both the theory and practice of decision-making. Although it is deeply implicated in many conditions involving dysfunctional behavior and thought\, modern theoretical approaches to understanding and mitigating risk in either one-shot or sequential settings\, which are derived largely from finance and economics\, have yet to permeate fully the fields of neural reinforcement learning and computational psychiatry. I will discuss the use of dynamic and static versions of one prominent approach\, namely conditional value-at-risk\, to examine both the nature of risk avoidant choices\, encompassing such things as justified gambler’s fallacies\, and the optimal planning that can lead to consideration of such choices\, with implications for offline\, ruminative\, thinking. This is joint work with Chris Gagne.\n \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/distinguished-speaker-series-peter-dayan/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210422T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210422T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210419T204213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T104311Z
UID:10069-1619107200-1619112600@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Oliver Brock (Science of Intelligente): 5 Things I Think About (Out Loud)\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nOliver Brock will continue exploring about these five things:\n1) Is intelligence non-decomposable?\n2) Does intelligence require multiple computational paradigms?\n3) To neuroscience or not to neuroscience?\n4) A principle of intelligence?\n5) It’s all about the prior \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-oliver-brock-5-things-i-think-about-out-loud-part-2/
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210422T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210422T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210316T055801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T094551Z
UID:9925-1619098200-1619101800@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:SCIoI at Girls' Day/Mädchen-Zukunftstag: Meet a Vision Scientist - Einblicke in die Wahrnehmungsforschung (Lynn Schmittwilken)
DESCRIPTION:Girls’ Day/Mädchen-Zukunftstag\, happening digitally on 22 April\, provides school girls around Germany with a day of informative activities aimed at guiding them in their career choices\, focusing on career paths where women are usually underrepresented. SCIoI member Lynn Schmittwilken talks to school-aged girls about being a vision scientist.\nThe event is in German. \n“In unserer Veranstaltung möchte ich euch persönliche Einblicke in meine Arbeit als visuelle Wahrnehmungsforscherin geben. Für viele von uns ist das Sehen einer der wichtigsten Sinne\, um uns im Alltag zurechtzufinden. Wie allerdings die optischen Informationen in unserer Umwelt über unsere Augen ins Gehirn gelangen und dabei zu unserem sehr lebendigen Abbild der Umwelt führen\, ist auch in der Wissenschaft noch immer ein ungelöstes Mysterium. Um diese Frage zu beantworten\, greifen einige Wahrnehmungsforscher*innen auf optische Täuschungen zurück. In unserer Veranstaltung werden wir uns deshalb gemeinsam eine Reihe von optischen Täuschungen anschauen\, die für meine Arbeit interessant sind. Dabei werden wir erörtern\, warum optische Täuschungen für die Wahrnehmungsforschung interessant sind und inwiefern sie uns Einblicke in das visuelle System geben. Darüber hinaus freue ich mich darauf\, mich mit euch darüber auszutauschen\, wie man eine Wahrnehmungsforscherin werden kann und wie mein Arbeitsalltag als Wahrnehmungsforscherin aussieht.” \nInterested school-aged girls should register here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/scioi-at-girls-day-madchen-zukunftstag-meet-a-vision-scientist-einblicke-in-die-wahrnehmungsforschung-lynn-schmittwilken/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210422T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210422T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210304T115615Z
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SUMMARY:European Funding for Bottom-up Research: The European Research Council (ERC) and the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA)
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 22 April 2021 EU Officers from the four institutions of the Berlin University Alliance (Edda Nitschke\, FUB; Caroline Schleier\, HUB; Elke Gehweiler\, TUB; Mara Klein\, Charité) will visit SCIoI and introduce European funding opportunities for bottom-up research. The focus will be on the grants offered by the European Research Council (ERC) as well as on selected funding opportunities available through the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCAs).\nWith its three funding lines Starting Grant\, Consolidator Grant and Advanced Grant the ERC funds innovative basic and pioneering research of single principle investigators and their teams (funding up to 2.5 Mio EUR for up to five years). The sole evaluation criterion is the scientific excellence of the project and of the PI. The ERC Synergy Grants address teams of 2-4 outstanding researchers who want to work together on a project at the interfaces between established disciplines that promises to make substantial scientific progress (funding up to 10 Mio EUR for up to six years).\nThe MSCAs fund bottom-up research and innovation projects. Transnational mobility is a basic principle of the MSCA\, as well as the participation of the non-academic sector. The MSCA Doctoral Networks provide funding to consortia of European institutions to support research-driven structured training of early career researchers. Postdoctoral researchers can apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship to receive funding for their own research project.\nThe presentation will include information on the requirements and guidelines for a successful application and will give an overview of the support services offered by the four institutions. \nFor more information\, write to us here. \n  \nPhoto by Bill Oxford on Unsplash 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/european-funding-for-bottom-up-research-the-european-research-council-erc-and-the-marie-sklodowska-curie-actions-msca/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210417T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210406T102243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095651Z
UID:10016-1618664400-1618682400@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:TEDxHUBerlin\, Talk by Dimitri Coelho Mollo: “Getting Serious About the “I” in AI”
DESCRIPTION:The event\, called “AI: A Tough Love” explores the connection between the calculating machine and the human being\, and attempts to understand in what ways do the worlds of humans\, nature\, and technology collide.\nThroughout the afternoon\, six great speakers will take a snapshot of today’s AI world to reflect on the current state of affairs\, to present AI as an innovation accelerator\, to take a look at possible threats or to give a creative outlook on how our future can be shaped by Machine Learning\, Big Data & Co.\nIn particular\, Dimitri will focus on how understanding intelligence in all its aspects is central for the progress of AI\, calling for a unifying approach that brings together neural networks\, symbolic processing\, and robotics.\nCheck out the website for tickets and further info: www.tedxhuberlin.de
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/tedxhuberlin-talk-by-dimitri-coelho-mollo/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210415T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210415T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T081525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T104603Z
UID:9572-1618502400-1618507800@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Oliver Brock (Science of Intelligence): 5 Things I Think About (Out Loud)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nOliver Brock will talk about these five things:\n1) Is intelligence non-decomposable?\n2) Does intelligence require multiple computational paradigms?\n3) To neuroscience or not to neuroscience?\n4) A principle of intelligence?\n5) It’s all about the prior\nEach section will be followed by Q&A&D. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-oliver-brock/
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210322T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210323T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T084416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T095207Z
UID:9592-1616421600-1616522400@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Workshop on Intelligence and Abilities (SCIoI/Human Abilities – Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities\, HU Berlin)
DESCRIPTION:This two-day workshop\, co-organised by the Berlin-based Science of Intelligence Cluster and Human Abilities – Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities\, brings together philosophers and cognitive scientists to discuss the relationships between intelligence and abilities in humans\, nonhuman animals\, and artificial systems. Is intelligence best seen as an ability? How to understand cognitive abilities and skills to start with? How can we investigate abilities and intelligence philosophically and scientifically? \nThe workshop will take place on 22 and 23 March from 2–6:30pm (CET)\, and the speakers are: \nEllen Fridland (London)\nRomy Jaster (Berlin)\nDimitri Coelho Mollo (Berlin)\nCarlotta Pavese (Cornell)\nMartin Rolfs (Berlin)\nBarbara Vetter (Berlin) \nThe workshop will take place on Zoom\, with social gatherings on Wonder. To register\, please write an email to communication@scioi.de.\nFor questions\, feel free to contact the organisers\, Dimitri Coelho Mollo (dimitri.coelhomollo@hu-berlin.de) and Sanja Dembić (sanja.dembic@hu-berlin.de). \n\nProgramme (all times in CET):\nMarch 22 (Monday) \n14:00-15:00: Dimitri Coelho Mollo: Unifying the sciences of intelligence: abilities and representation \n15:00-15:15: Break \n15:15-16:15: Martin Rolfs: Delineating abilities of an active visual system \n16:15-16:30: Break \n16:30-17:30: Barbara Vetter: The epistemology of ability \n17:30-17:45: Break \n17:45-18:30: Roundtable with all workshop speakers\n \nMarch 23 (Tuesday) \n \n14:00-15:00: Romy Jaster: A Challenge for Ability Accounts of Practical Intelligence \n15:00-15:15: Break \n15:15-16:15: Ellen Fridland: Practical Intentions\, Action Schemas\, and Strategic Control in Skill \n16:15-16:30: Break \n16:30-17:30: Carlotta Pavese: Intelligence\, Regress\, and Novelty. \n17:30-17:45: Break \n17:45-18:30: Roundtable with all workshop speakers \nFull programme with abstracts can be downloaded here.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/workshop-on-intelligent-abilities-scioi-human-abilities-centre-for-advanced-studies-in-the-humanities-hu-berlin/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210319T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210319T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210316T054953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T095343Z
UID:9921-1616176800-1616180400@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:SCIoI at Brain Awareness Week – Visual Illusions and Perception
DESCRIPTION:A lab demonstration on optical illusions for Brain Awareness Week\, organized by SCIoI + Active Perception and Cognition Lab (Martin Rolfs) \n“We from the active perception and cognition lab would like to invite you to our online event on Friday\, March 19th at 6pm\, for a presentation on visual illusions. Our lab is located at the Department of Psychology at Humboldt Universität in Berlin. The main focus of our research is on assessing the architecture and plasticity of processes involved in active vision and cognition using various methods such as eye tracking\, motion tracking\, psychophysics\, computational modelling\, EEG\, and recently\, robotics. \nIf you are interested in learning about visual illusions\, in active perception\, psychology and how you view the world through your eyes\, then please sign up by filling out the form below. In this talk you can expect to see first hand how your eyes can play tricks on you and learn about how your brain processes various types of visual information. \nPlease register here:\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOgwzeOWtbAi51B4IwBfDiJlBNTDtPmUJNSBVOTA08dvbSJw/viewform\nYou will receive a zoom link before the event by sharing your email below. We look forward to seeing you!” \nwww.brainawareness.org
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/scioi-at-brain-awareness-week-visual-illusions-and-persception/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210318T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210318T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210316T054454Z
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SUMMARY:SCIoI at Brain Awareness Week - Becoming Aware Through Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:A Brain Awareness Week event organized by Scholar Minds and in collaboration with Science of Intelligence and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain \n“We from Scholar Minds and in collaboration with Science of Intelligence and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain want to invite you to our online event on Thursday\, 18th of March\, at 5pm. We are a PhD initiative based in Berlin which focuses on mental health during the doctorate. Our mission is to help other PhD students to achieve a better mental health and work-life balance. \nPursuing a doctorate is an exceptional time with great opportunities like investigating a phenomenon no one ever did before or discussing your research with new people from all over the world. But are you aware that this exceptional time also harbors exceptional dangers to your mental health? Are you aware that you as a PhD student are six times more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression? During our event\, we want to raise your awareness on mental health struggles related to your doctorate and introduce you to a tool to become more resilient: mindfulness. Mindfulness is a simple meditation tool that can help you to increase your mental well-being.\nWe are happy to have the mindfulness expert Dr. Simon Guendelman with us who will present the concept and latest findings from (neuroscientific) research. On top\, he will take us onto a little journey to become more aware about ourselves through mindfulness. \nClick here to register: https://forms.gle/YpwcfRBkGGxy6Yhu5” \nhttps://www.brainawareness.org/event/becoming-aware-through-mindfulness-2/
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/brain-awareness-week-becoming-aware-through-mindfulness/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210318T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210318T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210222T064746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095708Z
UID:9838-1616061600-1616065200@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Thursday Morning Talk With Jakub Limanowski (TU Dresden): Precision Control as a Mechanism for Shaping Body Models
DESCRIPTION:When controlling action — e.g.\, hand movements — the brain typically relies on seen and felt posture information to represent ‘its’ body. It is thought that the brain combines these estimates into a multisensory (e.g. hand) representation in a probabilistic fashion\, accounting for how reliable each estimate is in the given context. I will present behavioural\, brain imaging\, and computational modelling work—which jointly suggest that during action\, the weights (i.e.\, the precision) assigned to visual vs proprioceptive information about body position can be changed in a top-down fashion by e.g. adoption of an ‘attentional set’. Such a contextualising function of ‘gain control’ is in line with predictive models of body representation\, where the expected precision of sensory prediction errors is based on internal model beliefs. I will conclude that (to some degree) body representations can be deliberately shaped by this mechanism; and I will discuss what this implies for the near future — in which entertaining and switching between multiple body representations\, e.g. in virtual realities\, may be increasingly common.\n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/thursday-morning-talk-with-jakub-limanowski/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210308T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210312T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210209T101557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T130320Z
UID:9769-1615190400-1615575600@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" 2021
DESCRIPTION:The 10th Winter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” is taking place on March 8-12\, 2021.\nIt is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN\, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain\, and the Excellence Cluster “Science of Intelligence”.\nThe event is tailored for MSc and PhD students\, but covers a range of topics of potential interest to other researchers\, reflecting on the ethical and societal consequences of modern neuroscience. \n\nTheoretical foundations\, as well as practical and ethical aspects are addressed. Participants will benefit from a combination of lectures with group work and discussions\, where they will put the learned content into practice. This year the focus will be on artificial intelligence.\nClick here for more information.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/winter-school-ethics-of-neuroscience-and-ai/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210218T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210218T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T093404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T092156Z
UID:9604-1613642400-1613646000@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Thursday Morning Lecture with Falk Lieder: "Understanding and Improving Human Learning and Decision-Making"
DESCRIPTION:One of its most remarkable features of human intelligence is the mind’s ability to discover and continuously refine its own algorithms. This enables people to discover clever heuristics for mastering most everyday decisions very efficiently. But some less familiar situations require different decision strategies that many people haven’t had a chance to discover yet. In this talk I will illustrate how investigating how people learn how to decide can enable advances in artificial intelligence and open up new avenues to improving human decision-making. This line of work started with reverse-engineering how people discover efficient planning strategies. We found that many aspects of how people’s decision strategies change with experience can be understood in terms of metacognitive reinforcement learning. The resulting cognitively-inspired learning algorithms make it possible to discover planning strategies that reach a super-human level of computational efficiency and outperform existing planning algorithms. Teaching these automatically discovered strategies to people significantly improved their performance in simple planning problems. Encouraged by these findings\, we have scaled up our approach to larger and more complex sequential decision problems\, made it robust to uncertainty about the environment\, and extended it to generating human-interpretable descriptions of optimal planning strategies in the form of flowcharts and procedural descriptions. These advances make it possible to improve human decision-making in a wider range of decision problems. I will close with an outlook on improving goal-setting\, goal pursuit\, and helping people learn how to make better decisions in the real world. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/thursday-morning-lecture-with-falk-lieder/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210211T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210211T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210126T093136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095716Z
UID:9602-1613037600-1613041200@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Alice Auersperg\, “COCKATOOLS: Innovative Tool Use and Manufacture in the Goffin’s Cockatoo”
DESCRIPTION:Finding flexible tool use and manufacture in non-specialized animals\, may contribute to our understanding of the origins of tool-related cognition. Goffin’s cockatoos are Indonesian parrots that originate from a small archipelago in the Moluccas. They are highly opportunist generalists that forage on a large number of different and often patchily distributed or seasonal resources. Accordingly\, they show flexibility and innovativeness during physical problem solving and extractive foraging tasks. Yet more unexpectedly\, in captivity and more recently also in the field we discovered highly flexible tool using and manufacturing abilities rivalling those of the great apes.\nNevertheless\, Goffin’s cockatoos are not dependent on tool obtained resources and lack two ecological predispositions (nest building and food caching) that have been proposed to promote the onset of tool use in birds.\nSo far\, our findings suggest that tool use in this species is associated to opportunism\, extreme extractive foraging and a strong psychological motivation to establish complex object combinations. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/thursday-morning-lecture-with-alice-auersperg/
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210204T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210204T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210125T164303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095733Z
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SUMMARY:Rasha Abdel Rahman\, “How Intelligent Is Visual Perception?”
DESCRIPTION:Visual perception is shaped by the input from our physical environment and by expectations derived from our sensory experience with the visual world. But is what we see also influenced by higher cognitive capacities such as memories\, language\, semantic knowledge or (true or false) beliefs? And if so\, what are the consequences on how we perceive and understand the visual and social world around us? Can visual perception be described as a creative process that is guided\, sometimes mislead or biased\, and\, arguably more often\, augmented by top-down influences from higher-level cognition? These questions pertain to the long-standing debate around the penetrability of perception. I will discuss evidence for effects of cognition on perception from basic low-level to complex high-level processing of colors\, objects\, faces and symbols\, as well as effects on the potential of these stimuli to be consciously perceived. The incorporation of additional sources of information may enhance the efficiency and flexibility of visual perception not only in humans\, but also in artificial neural networks that do not typically incorporate top-down information. In perspective\, this may enhance resource and data efficiency\, flexible adaptations to different contexts\, and mutual understanding between human and artificial agents in the service of successful interactions. \n  \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-rasha-abdel-rahman/
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210204T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210204T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20210125T164206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095741Z
UID:9553-1612432800-1612479600@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:Christa Thöne-Reinecke\, “Ethical Justification of Animal Experiments in Germany”
DESCRIPTION:All animal ethical positions are largely in agreement that animals – as beings capable of suffering – must be morally considered for their own sake and that certain consequences for one’s own actions must be derived from this.\nThis insight has been incorporated into animal protection legislation based on the EU Directive 2010/63.\nGerman legislation requires a reasonable justification of the pain\, suffering\, and harm inflicted on animals.\nFor this reason\, every scientist must demonstrate ethical justifiability of the intended experiment in accordance with the principle of proportionality within the framework of the approval procedure of animal experiments.\nMore specifically\, it must be demonstrated that no alternative method in reaching the project´s aims exists. Furthermore\, the project´s indispensability must be scientifically explained and it must be assigned to a permissible purpose. Study planning must be carried out by implementing statistical methods to reduce the number of animals and their burden to the indispensable level.\nAnimal keeping and medical care must be ensured by the permission to keep and breed animals in the context of a culture of care.\nUltimately\, the expected gain in knowledge must be set in relation to the burden inflicted on the animals and must be ethically justifiable or may even be considered an ethical imperative.\nThe scientist´s proposal and declarations are then revised by the animal welfare officer and\, if applicable\, by the ethics committee of respective institution.\nIt is then further examined by the local authorities and the §15 Commission\, in which ethics experts and animal welfare organizations are actively involved.\nAfter this revision process\, also involving the responsible scientist\, the final examination and approval is carried out by the local authorities.\nIt must be considered that ethical concepts and attitudes of society may be subject to change in the course of time. Hence\, a high degree of transparency is necessary in order to maintain public approval. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/thursday-morning-lecture-christa-thone-reinecke/
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210121T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221500
CREATED:20201205T175454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T092211Z
UID:9248-1611244800-1611250200@www.scienceofintelligence.de
SUMMARY:PI Lecture with Alan Akbik
DESCRIPTION:The Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-alan-akbik/
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