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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
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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
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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
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CREATED:20210419T204213Z
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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:20260403T234909
CREATED:20210316T055801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T094551Z
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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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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:20260403T234909
CREATED:20210406T102243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095651Z
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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:20260403T234909
CREATED:20210126T081525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T104603Z
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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:20260403T234909
CREATED:20210126T084416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T095207Z
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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:20260403T234909
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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:20260403T234909
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:20260403T234909
CREATED:20210222T064746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250604T095708Z
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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:20260403T234909
CREATED:20210209T101557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T130320Z
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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:20260403T234909
CREATED:20210126T093404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T092156Z
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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:20260403T234909
CREATED:20210126T093136Z
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210114T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210114T110000
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SUMMARY:Thursday Morning Lecture With John A. Nyakatura (MoA)\, “Reverse-Engineering the Locomotion of a Stem Amniote – Insights From a Multidisciplinary Approach”
DESCRIPTION:Reconstructing the locomotion of key vertebrate fossil specimens offers insights into their palaeobiology and helps to conceptualize major transitions in vertebrate evolution. A unique combination of an articulated nearly complete early land-living vertebrate fossil specimen and fossilized trackways was the starting point for an in-depth reconstruction of the locomotion based on the integration of image-based analyses with engineering techniques. The reconstruction involved experimental as well as computer-aided modelling approaches (‘virtual paleontology’). Starting from a large space of potential solutions\, unlikely postures and gaits were step-wise excluded based on quantitative data. Research into the fossil’s anatomy\, the fossil’s potential joint mobility and simulated potential movements within fossil tracks\, a comparative analysis of modern animal locomotor biomechanics using x-ray motion analysis\, and finally into a bio-inspired walking machine (OroBOT) will be summarized. The locomotor reconstruction demonstrates that Orobates exhibited more advanced locomotion than has been assumed for earlier species\, which suggests that advanced terrestrial locomotion preceded the diversification of crown amniotes\, a highly successful group of modern vertebrates. The talk exemplifies how contemporary paleobiological research can be focused on constraint-based exclusion of unlikely scenarios and deals with uncertainty. \nThe Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture. (Contact communication@scioi.de for specific questions)
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/john-nyakatura/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210107T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210107T173000
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SUMMARY:Olaf Hellwich
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-olaf-hellwich/
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201217T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201217T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234909
CREATED:20200309T121316Z
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SUMMARY:Patricia Churchland (University of California\, San Diego)\, The Neurobiological Platform for Moral Intuitions
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Self-preservation is embodied in our brain’s circuitry: we seek food when hungry\, warmth when cold\, and mates when lusty. In the evolution of the mammalian brain\, circuitry for regulating one’s own survival and well-being was modified. For sociality\, the important result was that the ambit of me extends to include others — me-and-mine. Offspring\, mates\, and kin came to be embraced in the sphere of  me-ness; we nurture them\, fight off threats to them\, keep them warm and safe. The brain knows these others are not me\, but if I am attached to them\, their plight fires-up caring circuitry\, motivating other-care that resembles self-care. In some species\, including humans\, seeing to the well-being of others may extend\, though less intensely\, to include friends\, business contacts or even strangers\, in an ever-widening circle. Oxytocin\, an ancient body-and-brain molecule\, is at the hub of the intricate neural adaptations sustaining mammalian sociality. Not acting alone\, oxytocin works with other hormones and neurotransmitters and structural adaptations. Among its many roles\, oxytocin decreases the stress response\, making possible the friendly\, trusting interactions typical of life in social mammals. I can let my guard down when I know I am among trusted family and friends. \n  \nBIO: For decades\, Patricia Churchland has contributed to the fields of philosophy of neuroscience\, philosophy of the mind and neuroethics. Her research has centered on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy with a current focus on the association of morality and the social brain. A Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California\, San Diego and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute\, Pat holds degrees from Oxford University\, the University of Pittsburg and the University of British Columbia. She has been awarded the MacArthur Prize\, The Rossi Prize for Neuroscience and the Prose Prize for Science. She has authored multiple pioneering books\, her most recent being Touching a Nerve. She has served as President of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Pat lives in Solana Beach\, California\, with her husband Paul\, a neurophilosopher\, and their labradoodle Millie. They have two children\, Anne and Mark\, both neuroscientists. Read more about her work on her website.\nPatricia Churchland is also a member of SCIoI’s Scientific Advisory Board.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/distinguished-people-series-talia-konkle-host-martin-rolfs/
LOCATION:On ZOOM (Contact us for Link)
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201210T160000
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SUMMARY:Ralph Hertwig: Experimenting with Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Experimenting with Intelligence \nAbstract. Within just 7 years\, behavioral decision research in psychology underwent a dramatic change. In 1967\, Peterson and Beach (1967a) reviewed more than 160 experiments concerned with people’s statistical intuitions. Invoking the metaphor of the mind as an intuitive statistician\, they concluded that “probability theory and statistics can be used as the basis for psychological models that integrate and account for human performance in a wide range of inferential tasks” (p. 29). Yet in a 1974 Science article\, Tversky and Kahneman rejected this conclusion\, arguing that “people rely on a limited number of heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simple judgmental operations” (p. 1124). With that\, they introduced the heuristics-and-biases research program\, which has profoundly altered how psychology\, and the behavioral sciences more generally\, view the mind’s competences\, rationality\, and\, ultimately\, intelligence. How was this radical transformation possible? In this talk\, I will aim to give one possible answer to this question\, and it focuses on the how of we experiment with human intelligence. \nSpeaker website:\nhttps://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/staff/ralph-hertwig \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-ralph-hertwig/
LOCATION:On ZOOM (Contact us for Link)
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201203T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201203T180000
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SUMMARY:Naomi Leonard\, Princeton University (hosted by Jörg Raisch): Opinion Dynamics with Tunable Sensitivity:  Consensus\, Dissensus\, and Cascades
DESCRIPTION:I will present a model of continuous-time opinion dynamics for an arbitrary number of agents that communicate over a network and form real-valued opinions about an arbitrary number of options.  The model generalizes linear and nonlinear models in the literature. Drawing from biology\, physics\, and social psychology\, we introduce an attention parameter to modulate social influence and a saturation function to bound inter-agent and intra-agent opinion exchanges.  This yields simply parameterized dynamics that exhibit the range of opinion formation behaviors predicted by model-independent bifurcation theory but not exhibited by linear models or existing nonlinear models. Behaviors include reliable formation of consensus and dissensus\, even in homogeneous networks\, and opinion cascades. The opinion dynamics also display ultra-sensitivity to inputs\, robustness to disturbance\, and flexible transitions between consensus and dissensus. Augmenting the opinion dynamics with feedback dynamics for the attention parameter results in tunable thresholds that govern sensitivity\, robustness\, and flexibility.  The model provides new means for systematic study of dynamics on natural and engineered networks\, from information spread and political polarization to collective decision making and dynamic task allocation. This is joint work with Alessio Franci (UNAM\, Mexico) and Anastasia Bizyaeva (Princeton). \nNaomi Ehrich Leonard is a control theorist whose work involves analysis and design of feedback and interconnection in complex\, dynamical systems.  She uses mathematical models and methods to study mechanisms of collective motion and collective decision making for multi-agent systems in nature (analysis of animal and human groups) and in engineering (design of autonomous robotic teams and mobile sensor networks).  She has applied her work to the collective dynamics of killifish\, starlings\, honeybees\, zebras\, and desert harvester ants\, as well as to rule-based improvisational dance.  She led a multidisciplinary ocean sensing project with a month-long deployment of an automated\, adaptive network of underwater robotic vehicles in Monterey Bay\, CA.  Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and associated faculty member of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University.  She is a MacArthur Fellow\, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, IEEE\, SIAM\, ASME\, and IFAC. Visit her website here. \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-naomi-leonard-princeton-university-hosted-by-jorg-raisch/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201203T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201203T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234909
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SUMMARY:Michael Pauen
DESCRIPTION:BIO: Michael Pauen is a philosopher with a focus on the philosophy of mind. As the academic director of an interdisciplinary graduate school\, he has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research and training. Having a specific interest in philosophical and psychological aspects of human sociality\, he will focus on social intelligence both in humans and in artificial systems. \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-mornng-lecture-michael-pauen/
LOCATION:On ZOOM (Contact communication@scioi.de for link)
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201126T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201126T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234909
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SUMMARY:Michele Rucci\, University of Rochester (Hosted by Marianne Maertens): Seeing by Moving: The Indissoluble Bond Between Perception and Action
DESCRIPTION:Seeing by moving: the indissoluble bond between perception and action \nEstablishing a representation of space is a major goal of sensory systems.  Spatial information\, however\, is not always explicit in the incoming sensory signals. In most modalities it needs to be actively extracted from cues embedded in the temporal flow of receptor activation. Vision\, on the other hand\, starts with a sophisticated optical imaging system that explicitly preserves spatial information on the retina. This may lead to the assumption that vision is predominantly a passive spatial process: all that is needed is to transmit the retinal image to the cortex\, like uploading a digital photograph\, to establish a spatial map of the world. However\, this deceptively simple analogy is inconsistent with theoretical models and experiments that study visual processing in the context of normal motor behavior. I will argue that\, as with other senses\, vision relies heavily on sensorimotor strategies to extract and represent spatial information in the temporal domain. \nBio:\n \nMichele Rucci investigates the computational and biological mechanisms underlying visual perception following an ecological approach that studies vision in conjunction with motor behavior – in particular eye movements and characteristics of natural environments. In his Active Perception Laboratory\, his work has led to multiple findings on the roles of eye movements in the encoding of visual information and the establishment of spatial representations\, leading to the development of new tools for experimental studies and robots directly controlled by models of neural pathways. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/distinguished-speaker-series-michele-rucci-hosted-by-marianne-maertens/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201119T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201119T173000
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CREATED:20200827T081235Z
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SUMMARY:Pawel Romanczuk (SCIoI): Collective Information Processing - From Simple Flocking Models to Real Ecological Systems
DESCRIPTION:Collective Information Processing – From Simple Flocking Models to Real Ecological Systems \nAbstract: \nCollective systems such animal groups or cellular ensembles represent fascinating examples of self-organization in biology. In contrast to non-living physical systems\, self-organized biological collectives are results of long-term evolutionary adaptations to a specific ecological niche\, where collective behavior provides evolutionary benefits to individual agents. However\, collective information processing\, as an important biological function and a core aspect of collective intelligence\, is always subject to constraints set by the interaction mechanisms and the resulting self-organized dynamics. \nIn this lecture\, we will review models of self-organized flocking\, discuss their potential limitations\, open question\, and newer developments. Further on\, we will discuss the interplay between self-organization and collective information processing with some specific examples from our recent research\, as e.g. collective migration in complex environments\, or collective predator evasion.
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/pi-lecture-with-pawel-romanczuk-scioi/
LOCATION:On ZOOM (Contact us for Link)
CATEGORIES:PI Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201112T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201112T113000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234909
CREATED:20201102T113930Z
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SUMMARY:Heiko Hamann\, Minimize Surprise in Robots: An Innate Motivation for Collective Behavior
DESCRIPTION:Minimize Surprise in Robots: An Innate Motivation for Collective Behavior \nAfter a quick overview of other related research projects in my lab (bio-hybrid systems\, swarm performance\, collective decision-making)\, I will present our work on minimize surprise for multi-robot systems. Each robot has two artificial neural networks\, a world model (“prediction machine”) and a behavioral module (“action selection network”)\, that are trained concurrently. There is no predefined task\, instead the swarm is rewarded for making correct predictions about future sensory input. As an effect\, robots discover behaviors introducing predictable spatiotemporal sensor patterns. I will present simulated results for flocking\, aggregation\, self-assembly\, construction\, and first results using real-world mobile robots. \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-heiko-hamann-minimize-surprise-in-robots-an-innate-motivation-for-collective-behavior/
CATEGORIES:Thursday Morning Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201110T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234909
CREATED:20201015T104319Z
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SUMMARY:Berlin Science Week Panel Discussion:  Dimitri Coelho Mollo\, Rainer Mühlhoff\, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer\, Lynn Schmittwilken. Living with AI: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence: a philosophical\, ethical and social overview. \nAs part of the series “6 o’clock with SCIoI” series of talks within the Berlin Science Week\, the panelists will discuss with the public about the philosophical\, ethical and social issues raised by AI research and applications. \nPlease visit the Berlin Science Week website to access the event.\nhttps://falling-walls.com/event/panel-discussion-living-with-ai-past-present-and-future/
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/berlin-science-week-panel-discussion-dimitri-coelho-mollo-rainer-muhlhoff-ingo-schulz-schaeffer-lynn-schmittwilken-living-with-ai-past-present-and-future/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201109T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201109T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234909
CREATED:20201015T104559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T105723Z
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SUMMARY:Berlin Science Week Talk\, Michael Pauen (SCIoI): Is artificial intelligence intelligent?
DESCRIPTION:A talk about the relation between human and artificial intelligence. \nAs part of the 6 o’clock with SCIoI series of talks\, Michael Pauen will discuss the relation between human and artificial intelligence. The most advanced AI systems today try to drive cars\, care for the elderly\, read texts or play soccer – things that we do not regard as particularly intelligent at least when they are done by humans. This raises the question whether human and artificial intelligence can be compared at all? Our speaker will suggest a number of criteria that apply to human and artificial intelligence and describe fields where a comparison between humans and robots makes sense. It will turn out that this comparison may teach us something new and unexpected about human intelligence as well. \nPlease visit the Berlin Science Week website to access the event.\nhttps://falling-walls.com/event/is-artificial-intelligence-intelligent/
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/berlin-science-week-talk-michael-pauen-is-artificial-intelligence-intelligent/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201107T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T234909
CREATED:20201015T103857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T105732Z
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SUMMARY:Berlin Science Week Talk\, Pawel Romanczuk And Ralf Kurvers (SCIoI)\, Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity? What Humans can Learn from Fish
DESCRIPTION:Exploring swarm intelligence in fish and humans. \nAs part of the “6 o’clock with SCIoI” talk series\, scientists Pawel Romanczuk and Ralf Kurvers 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. \nPlease visit the Berlin Science Week website to access the event.\nhttps://falling-walls.com/event/collective-intelligence-or-collective-stupidity-what-humans-can-learn-from-fish/
URL:https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/berlin-science-week-talk-pawel-romanczuk-and-ralf-kurvers-collective-intelligence-or-collective-stupidity-what-humans-can-learn-from-fish/
CATEGORIES:For the Public
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