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SUMMARY:Marianne Maertens & Martin Rolfs (SCIoI): Paradigm Shift in Vision Science and Maybe Other Disciplines?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nImplicit or explicit assumptions which used to guide our empirical study of visual perception have started to be called into question. We would like to share this observation with other people\, hear about similar or different developments in other fields\, and discuss its consequences.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/marianne-maertens-martin-rolfs-paradigm-shift-in-vision-science-and-maybe-other-disciplines/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, MAR Building\, Marchstr. 23\, Berlin
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SUMMARY:Pia Bideau and Raphael Deimel: Boost Your Experiments!
DESCRIPTION:“Boost your experiments!” \nThe ScioI cluster provides for several post-doc level research positions for improving scientific integration across disciplines\, as well as for\nadvancing the level of sophistication in experiments we can conduct in the ScioI Labs. Currently\, there are two “support” post-docs\, Pia Bideau and Raphael Deimel. Pia is an expert in motion-based image segmentation and rooted in Computer Vision\, whereas Raphael is rooted in Robotics and has recently worked on models of mechanical behavior and human-robot interaction. In this talk\, both will give an overview on their respective skills and prior work with the primary aim to inform fellow researchers on systems and hardware available to implement unique experiments in current and future projects.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pia-bideau-and-raphael-deimel-boost-your-experiments/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, MAR Building\, Marchstr. 23\, Berlin
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SUMMARY:Prof. Katja Liebal (FU Berlin): Understanding the Human Mind: The Value of a Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Are humans unique? If so\, which cognitive and communication skills characterize human beings? Are these characteristics universal\, or do they vary depending on the individual’s social\, ecological\, and cultural background? While it may sound plausible that answering these questions requires the comparison of different cultural groups to learn about the universals and variability of human behavior\, it seems much less convincing that we can also benefit from studying other species\, especially when our interest centers on the psychology of the human being. However\, I argue that\, when aiming to understand human psychology\, we benefit from a frame of reference against which to assess it. The comparison with the psychology of other animals\, and nonhuman primates in particular\, can provide such a frame of reference and thereby contribute to the extraction of the definitive characteristics of the human species. \n  \nBio:  Katja Liebal is a comparative psychologist with a background in biology. After finishing her PhD on social communication of great apes at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig\, she has worked as lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth\, UK\, and as Assistant Professor for Evolutionary Psychology at the Cluster Languages of Emotion at Universität Berlin. Currently\, she works as Professor for Comparative Developmental Psychology at the Psychology department at Freie Universität Berlin. Her main research interests center on the multimodal communication of nonhuman primates and human children and the developmental trajectories of their corresponding socio-cognitive and communicative skills. Furthermore\, she is interested in the prosocial behavior of great apes and children from diverse cultural backgrounds. She uses observational and experimental methods and combines cross-species\, cross-cultural approaches to study different species of great apes and human children from different cultural contexts.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/prof-katja-liebal-fu-berlin-understanding-the-human-mind-the-value-of-a-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:SCIoI\, MAR Building\, Marchstr. 23\, Berlin
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SUMMARY:Pascal Klink (TU Darmstadt): Self-Paced Reinforcement Learning
DESCRIPTION:Thursday Morning Lectures\nAbstract:\nGeneralization and adaptation of learned skills to novel situations is a core requirement for intelligent autonomous robots. Although contextual reinforcement learning provides a principled framework for learning and generalization of behaviors across related tasks\, it generally relies on uninformed sampling of environments from an unknown\, uncontrolled context distribution\, thus missing the benefits of structured\, sequential learning. We introduce a novel relative entropy reinforcement learning algorithm that gives the agent the freedom to control the intermediate task distribution\, allowing for its gradual progression towards the target context distribution. Empirical evaluation shows that the proposed curriculum learning scheme drastically improves sample efficiency and enables learning in scenarios with both broad and sharp target context distributions in which classical approaches perform sub-optimally.\n \nBio:\nPascal is a Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Group at TU Darmstadt. At IAS\, he works for the ROBOLEAP project\, where he develops methods for reinforcement learning in unstructured\, partially observable real world environments. Before starting his PhD\, Pascal completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Master’s degree in Autonomous Systems at the TU Darmstadt. Within his Master’s thesis he worked on “Generalization and Transferability in Reinforcement Learning” and was supervised by Hany Abdulsamad\, Boris Belousov and Jan Peters
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pascal-klink-tu-darmstadt-self-paced-reinforcement-learning/
LOCATION:MAR23 4.064\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200219T173000
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SUMMARY:“The Ethics of AI-Chemy – When Science Meets Hype” – Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Oliver Brock
DESCRIPTION:Winter School Keynote Lecture: Oliver Brock (Cluster Science of Intelligence\, TU Berlin)\nCluster Speaker Prof. Dr. Oliver Brock will deliver the keynote lecture at this year’s Winter School Ethics and Neuroscience. \n\nThe 9th Winter School “Ethics and Neuroscience is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. \nThe event is tailored for MSc and PhD students\, but covers a range of topics of potential interest to other researchers\, reflecting \non 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 \ngroup work and discussions\, where they will put the learned content into practice. \nRead more here \n  \n  \n  \nVenue:Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\nInstitut für Biologie\, Campus Nord\, House 2\, Lecture Hall 1\nEntry to Campus from: Luisenstraße 56\, 10117 Berlin\nEntry to Campus from: Philippstraße 12/13a\, 10115 Berlin \nContact: Dr. Dirk Mende\, Berlin School of Mind and Brain\n030 / 2093-89768
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/the-ethics-of-ai-chemy-when-science-meets-hype-keynote-lecture-by-prof-dr-oliver-brock/
LOCATION:HU Berlin – Institut für Biologie\, Phillipstraße 12/13a\, Berlin\, Berlin\, 10115\, Germany
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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SUMMARY:Career Day for Doctoral Candidates 2020 - Berlin University Alliance
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nCareer Day for Doctoral Researchers 2020\, Bildquelle: Carolina Valsecchi Gillmeister\nOn February 18\, 2020 the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will host the next career day for doctoral candidates.\nThe event is organized by doctoral researchers from Humboldt-Universität\, Freie Universität and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and supported by \nthe members of the Berlin University Alliance and HEIBRiDS\, the Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science. In a mix of \npresentations and World Cafés speakers from varied sectors and walks of life will give insights in their careers and answer questions of the participants. \nClick here for more info and registration. \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/career-day-for-doctoral-candidates-2020-berlin-university-alliance/
LOCATION:Humboldt Universität\, Luisenstr. 56\, 10117 Berlin
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SUMMARY:Henry Shevlin\, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence: General Intelligence: An Ecumenical Heuristic for Artificial Consciousness Research?
DESCRIPTION:Henry Shevlin is a research associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge).\nHe did his PhD at CUNY Graduate Center in New York with a thesis on “Consciousness\, Perception and Short-Term Memory”. \nLink to CV here \nABSTRACT: \nThe science of consciousness has made great strides in recent decades\, both in the development of theoretical frameworks and in the refinement of our experimental and clinical tools for the assessment of consciousness in humans. However\, the proliferation of competing theories makes it harder to reach consensus about artificial consciousness. While for purely scientific purposes we might wish to adopt a ‘wait and see’ attitude\, we may soon face practical and ethical questions about whether\, for example\, an artificial agent is capable of suffering. Moreover\, many of the methods used for assessing consciousness in humans and even non-human animals are not straightforwardly applicable to artificial systems. With these challenges in mind\, I propose that we adopt an ecumenical heuristic for artificial consciousness so that we can make tentative assessments of the likelihood of consciousness arising in different artificial systems. I argue that such a heuristic should have three main features: it should be intuitively plausible\, theoretically neutral\, and scientifically tractable. I claim that the concept of general intelligence – understood as a capacity for robust\, flexible\, and integrated cognition and behaviour – satisfies these criteria and may thus provide the basis for such a heuristic\, allowing us to make initial cautious estimations of which artificial systems are most likely to be conscious. \nLecture hosted by: Miriam Kyselo
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/henry-shevlin-leverhulme-centre-for-the-future-of-intelligence/
LOCATION:MAR23 4.064\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200206T160000
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SUMMARY:John-Dylan Haynes (SCIoI): “What Can Neuroimaging Tell Us About Human Intelligence?”
DESCRIPTION:The concept of intelligence in cognitive science has been highly elusive. One pragmatic approach to understanding intelligence is to use classical intelligence tests\, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). In such tests\, performance is assessed in a number of specific subtask items\, and the performance across these items is then integrated to an overall (or “full scale”) IQ. Neuroimaging has contributed to both the single-item and the full-scale performance. At the item level\, several studies have looked at resource and efficiency models. At the full-scale level studies have looked at overall brain structure\, as well as the importance of various subregions of the brain. Furthermore\, various architectural principles can be considered. Overall\, this line of research contributes to the understanding of intelligent cognition in a specific biological substrate\, the healthy human brain. \nProf. John-Dylan Haynes \nCharité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin\, HU Berlin\, Psychology \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-series-john-dylan-haynes-what-can-neuroimaging-tell-us-about-human-intelligence/
LOCATION:MAR23 4.064\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200123T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200123T173000
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SUMMARY:Alex Kacelnik (University of Oxford): What Are Minds for\, and How Do They Work?
DESCRIPTION:PI Lecture Series\nAbstract: \nThe biological perspective on intelligence is well represented by the following quotes: “Is it not reasonable to anticipate that our understanding \nof the human mind would be aided greatly by knowing the purpose for which it was designed?” (George Williams) and “Everybody is a genius. \nBut if you judge a fish by its ability to climb trees\, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” (Albert Einstein). \nMeanwhile\, those working on synthetic approaches to intelligence are often inspired by Richard Feynman’s claim that “What I cannot create\, I do not understand”. \nThese quotes embody useful and inspiring questions for research on intelligence: why does it evolve\, how specific is it\, and to what extent can theoretical models \nthat we create behave intelligently. I will describe studies of animal intelligent behaviour and our attempts to understand it. \n  \nAlex Kacelnik FRS is a behavioural ecologist that works on animal behaviour and its underlying psychological mechanisms. \nHis research includes studies of decision making\, learning and memory in birds\, mammals\, insects and other animals. \nIn SCioI he collaborates with Oliver Brock and Alice Auersperg in research on intelligence in cockatoos and its emulation in artificial systems. \nHe is also is a member and promotor of the Oxford-Berlin partnership.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-series-alex-kacelnik-university-of-oxford/
LOCATION:MAR23 4.064\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200118T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200118T210000
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SUMMARY:Salon Sophie Charlotte 2020 - Talk with Miriam Kyselo: Wie kommt die Welt in meinem Kopf? (in German)
DESCRIPTION:SCIoI faculty member Miriam Kyselo and philosopher Joerg Fingerhut (Einstein Group „Consciousness\, Emotions\, Values“) take part in a discussion chaired by Andreas Sentker (the ZEIT-Wissen chief editor) about the role of the brain and the body\, but also of cultural artifacts\, in the creation of the world. The talk (in German) is part of the Salon Sophie Charlotte 2020 (https://salon.bbaw.de/home/programm/raum-327/)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/salon-sophie-charlotte-2020-talk-wie-kommt-die-welt-in-meinem-kopf/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200117T193000
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SUMMARY:Wissenschaft im Sauriersaal - Lecture by Prof. Jens Krause (SCIoI) (in German)
DESCRIPTION:On SCIoI faculty member Professor Jens Krause will open this year’s lecture series with a talk on swarm intelligence:\n \n“Ob Mensch oder Tier: Warum der Schwarm intelligenter ist als der Einzelne”.\nThe lecture is in German. \nLink to event page here \nPhoto by: Rodrigo Friscione Wyssmann
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/wissenschaft-im-sauriersaal-lecture-by-prof-jens-krause-in-german/
LOCATION:Naturkundemuseum
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200114T083000
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SUMMARY:Admissions 2020
DESCRIPTION:Symposium and Interviews for prospective (post)doctoral researchers.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/admissions-2020/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200109T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200109T173000
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SUMMARY:Guillermo Gallego (SCIoI):  "Spatial AI and Event-based Vision"
DESCRIPTION:PI Lecture Series –  “Spatial AI and Event-based Vision”\nProf. Dr. Guillermo Gallego \nRobotic Interactive Perception Group\, TU Berlin
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-series-guillermo-gallego/
LOCATION:FH 315\, Fraunhoferstraße 33-36\, Berlin\, 10587
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200109T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200109T110000
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SUMMARY:Internal Models and Predictive Coding from a Robotics and Cognitive Science Perspective: Prof. Bruno Lara and Dr. Alejandra Ciria
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Bruno Lara (Cognitive Robotics\, UAEM\, Mexico) and Dr. Alejandra Ciria (Cognitive Psychology\, UNAM\, Mexico) will give a presentation on their research on internal models and predictive coding from a Robotics and Cognitive Science perspective. They are currently visiting researchers at the Adaptive Systems Group at HU Berlin with an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship.\nAbstract: \nA cognitive system can be conceived as one which fulfills its goals anticipating the causes of its sensations by containing a predictive model of itself and its environment to select and guide action. During the last years\, our research has focused on the issues of Internal Models\, anticipation and multimodal representations within this framework. We have developed a number of systems that successfully make use of these concepts in the production of coherent behavior. Now\, our main research interest is the study of predictions and how these can be learned by an agent taking into account the specific dynamics of its internal states. Special interest lays in the impact these dynamics bring into the learning capabilities and the interactions with the world of an agent. How does an artificial agent decide what is the relevant information to learn during its interactions with the world? Predicting future states accurately while seeking unanticipated novel states are competing pressures within an agent. We believe that these competing pressures should be resolved by tracking the prediction error dynamics of its internal states. An artificial agent endowed with this mechanism should be able to decide and plan its future actions in accordance with the proper type of novelty given its current knowledge and capabilities. Therefore\, an artificial agent should be intrinsically motivated to select actions given its epistemic value providing the capability of open-ended learning. \nBruno Lara is a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM) and the Head of the Cognitive Robotics Lab at the Science Research Center at the UAEM since 2005. He holds a PhD in Mechatronics from King’s\nCollege London. He did a postdoc in the TheoriLabor in the University of Jena\, working on evolutionary robotics\, and then a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Psychology Research in Munich\, focusing on research on Cognitive\nRobotics. In 2011\, he spent a sabbatical stay in the Cognitive Robotics Lab at the Humboldt- Universitat zu Berlin. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.\nHis research interests include internal models\, prediction\, sensorimotor representations\, and evolutionary robotics. \nAlejandra Ciria is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, Department of Computer Science in the Adaptive Systems Group\, Germany\, Berlin (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, Special Alumni Sponsorship\, 2019).\nShe obtained a Master’s Degree in Cognitive Sciences in 2013 at the UAEM\, Morelos\, México.\nShe then studied a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology\, UNAM\, México\, graduating in 2019.\nSince 2011\, she is an active member of the Cognitive Robotics Lab at the CInC-UAEM\, México.\nHer research focuses on computational modeling under the predictive processing framework\, as well as the study of prediction error dynamics as a self-regulating mechanism.\nAlejandra ́s research interests are centered in Psychophysics\, Experimental Psychology\, Cognitive Robotics\, and Cognitive Sciences.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/internal-models-and-predictive-coding-from-a-robotics-and-cognitive-science-perspective-prof-bruno-lara-and-dr-alejandra-ciria/
LOCATION:MAR23 5.006\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191219T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191219T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T232759
CREATED:20191217T065104Z
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SUMMARY:Adaptive Learning and Intelligent Tutor Systems: Rebecca Lazarides\, Niels Pinkwart\, Verena Hafner (SCIoI)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday Morning Lectures\nAbstract: In educational psychology\, the benefits and limitations of adaptive learning processes are currently under debate. In computer science\, Intelligent Tutor Systems (ITS) exist that are adaptive to learners’ level of skills and knowledge\, but it is an open research question how novel user modelling approaches and feedback strategies in ITS incorporating virtual agents can enhance positive emotions and motivation and reduce negative emotions in learning situations. This talk will provide an overview of current research questions in educational psychology about adaptive learning and new developments in the field of intelligent tutor systems.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/adaptive-learning-and-intelligent-tutor-systems-rebecca-lazarides-niels-pinkwart-verena-hafner/
LOCATION:MAR23 5.006\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191212T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191212T173000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: William H. Warren (Brown University)
DESCRIPTION:Distinguished Lecture Series\nOn 12 December 2019\, Professor William H. Warren (Brown University) will kick off the SCIoI Distinguished Lecture Series. \nWilliam Warren earned his undergraduate degree at Hampshire College (1976)\, his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from\nthe University of Connecticut (1982)\, did post-doctoral work at the University of Edinburgh\, and has been a professor at Brown ever since. \nMy research focuses on the visual control of action – in particular\, human locomotion and navigation.\nOn the one hand\, I want to understand how motor behavior such as gait and other rhythmic movements are dynamically organized.\nOn the other\, I seek to explain how such behavior is adaptively regulated by visual information in complex environments.\nUsing virtual reality techniques\, my research team investigates problems such as the visual control of steering\, obstacle avoidance\,\npedestrian interactions\, and collective crowd behavior.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/distinguished-lecture-series-william-h-warren-brown-university/
LOCATION:MAR23 4.064\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191212T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191212T110000
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SUMMARY:Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer: Models As Epistemic Tools
DESCRIPTION:Thursday Morning Lectures
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/ingo-schulz-schaeffer-models-as-epistemic-tools/
LOCATION:MAR23 5.006\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191205T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191205T173000
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SUMMARY:Marianne Maertens (SCIoI): “How We Perceive Surfaces”
DESCRIPTION:PI Lecture Series\nMarianne Maertens: “How we perceive surfaces”
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-series-marianne-maertens/
LOCATION:FH 315\, Fraunhoferstraße 33-36\, Berlin\, 10587
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191205T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191205T113000
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SUMMARY:Surjo R. Soekadar (Charité - University Medicine Berlin): Brain/Neural-Machine Interfaces for Assistance and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Thursday Morning Lectures\nAbstract: \nImplementation of neural control in the application of advanced robotic systems promises restoration of autonomy and quality of life in severe paralysis. Moreover\, neurotechnologies that are capable of analyzing\, interpreting and modulating brain activity in real-time promise to advance our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of human brain functions. But what are the current challenges and perspectives for brain-computer interfaces (BCI)? And how can neurotechnologies improve health and quality of life? This talk will provide an overview of the current state-of-art in clinical BCI applications and introduce the newest developments in the field. Besides sketching technological boundaries\, also neuroethical dimension will be discussed. \nBio: Surjo R. Soekadar\, MD\, is Einstein Professor of Clinical Neurotechnology at the Charité – University Medicine Berlin. From 2009-2011\, he was fellow at the Human Cortical Physiology and Stroke Neurorehabilititation Section (HCPS) at the NIH\, USA. After his return to Germany\, he became head of the Applied Neurotechnology Lab at the University Hospital of Tübingen\, where he also served as senior consultant in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. His research interests include cortical plasticity in the context of brain/neural-machine interface (B/NMI) applications\, non-invasive brain stimulation and neural mechanisms of learning and memory. \n 
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/surjo-r-soekadar-charite-university-medicine-berlin-brain-neural-machine-interfaces-for-assistance-and-beyond/
LOCATION:MAR23 5.006\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Stephen Cave: Intelligence as Ideology: From IQ to AI
DESCRIPTION:A Thursday Talk on a Friday!\nDr Stephen Cave is Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence\nand Senior Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge \nHe earned his PhD in philosophy from Cambridge\, then spent a decade in the British Foreign Office\, where he served as a policy advisor and diplomat.\nHe is author of the book Immortality (Penguin Random House)\, a New Scientist book of the year\, and co-editor of the forthcoming AI\nNarratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (OUP). His cross-disciplinary research interests currently focus on the nature\, portrayal and governance of AI. \nAbstract: \nThe notion of intelligence has always been political\, in that is has been used consistently to establish and enforce systems of social dominance.\nThis talk will begin with a historical overview of this\, from Aristotle to IQ\, showing the role that assessment of intelligence has played in establishing hierarchies \nincluding patriarchy and colonialism. It will then ask what this legacy means in the age of intelligent machines\, arguing that this history is distorting the\ncurrent debate about the ethics and impact of AI. In particular\, it will examine the focus on automation and middle-class jobs\, the cult of brilliance in the \ntechnology sector\, and the fear of artificial super-intelligence. \nhttp://lcfi.ac.uk/team/stephen-cave/
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/stephen-cave-intelligence-as-ideology-from-iq-to-ai/
LOCATION:MAR23 5.006\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Matt Crosby (Imperial Collge London): Kinds of Intelligence: Testing AI on Animal Cognition Tasks
DESCRIPTION:Thursday morning lectures\nABSTRACT: I will give a brief overview of the ongoing work of the Kinds of Intelligence team at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and then focus on the Animal-AI project. Our aim is to bring insights from comparative cognition to the AI community and facilitate work towards more general\, and cognitively-inspired\, kinds of intelligence. To this end we recently ran the Animal-AI Olympics competition. Participants were given a small simulated arena with simple physics and a few basic objects to interact with. Their goal was to submit a robust food retrieval agent. The only information they had about the tests were that they were constructed in the arena out of known items\, required the retrieval of designated food objects\, and were based on tests passed by animals. We also provided a syllabus of capabilities required to solve our testbed including navigation\, spatial memory\, object permanence\, and simple causal reasoning. Now that the competition has finished\, we can reveal our testbed and present it as an open challenge for AI. I will also present our plans to extend the environment and eventually move the paradigm from simulation to the real world. \nBIO: Matthew Crosby is a postdoctoral researcher on the Kinds of Intelligence project at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He is based at Imperial College London where he works with Murray Shanahan on the broad area of artificial cognition. He has an interdisciplinary background spanning AI\, robotics\, cognitive science\, and philosophy of mind and is interested in modern AI approaches that span this range of disciplines. His long-term goal is to better understand what it means to ‘have a mind’ by knowing how to build an artificial system that has one.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/matt-crosby-imperial-collge-london-kinds-of-intelligence-testing-ai-on-animal-cognition-tasks/
LOCATION:MAR23 5.006\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Jörg Raisch (SCIoI): Models for Feedback - Costs and Benefits of Simplicity
DESCRIPTION:PI Lecture Series\nModels for Feedback — Cost and Benefits of Simplicity \nJoerg Raisch\, Control Systems Group\, TU Berlin \nAbstract: \nWe’ll start with a short introduction to feedback control. I’ll\nemphasise that the systematic design of feedback requires a formal\nmodel of the system to be controlled\, and that the choice of such a\nmodel represents a fundamental degree of freedom in the design\nprocess. In general\, one is interested in “simple” models\, where the\nnotion of “simplicity” may refer to the dimension or the structure\n(e.g.\, linearity) of the model. We’ll explore possible costs that are\nrelated to model simplification: examples are the loss of predictive\npower or a weaker algebraic setting. We will finally discuss\nconditions that make these costs acceptable.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-series-jorg-raisch-models-for-feedback-costs-and-benefits-of-simplicity/
LOCATION:FH 315\, Fraunhoferstraße 33-36\, Berlin\, 10587
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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SUMMARY:Iyad Rahwan (MPIB): How To Trust a Machine
DESCRIPTION:Thursday morning lectures\nTalk by Iyad Rahwan\, director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab. \nThe topic of his talk will be “How to Trust a Machine”.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/iyad-rahwan-mpib-how-to-trust-a-machine/
LOCATION:MAR23 5.006\, Marchstraße 23\, Berlin\, 10587\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019
DESCRIPTION:Robots playing soccer\, lab mice\, visual experiments: SCIoI members demonstrated their science and talk about their discoveries for an entire evening.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/lange-nacht-der-wissenschaften-2019/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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