Winter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” 2024
The 13th Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" is taking place on Feb 26 - March 1, 2024. It is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN, the Berlin School of
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Thursday Morning Talk Christian Poth (Bielefeld University), “Task-Driven Phasic Alertness: How Being Ready for Action Relies on the Current Task”
Abstract: Humans often must respond quickly to events happening in their environment. To support fast perception and action, the brain has evolved a warning system. Warning stimuli are used to
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Distinguished Speaker Series POSTPONED: Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), “The Evolution of Brain and Cognition: A Wild Hypothesis”
Onur Güntürkün is regarded as a pioneer of biologically based psychology. The aim of his work is to find out how perception, thought and action arise in the brain. He
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Distinguished Speaker Series Michael Beetz (Universität Bremen), “Empowering Robots with Digital Mental Models: Filling the Cognitive Gap for Everyday Tasks”
In this talk I introduce Digital Mental Models (DMMs) as a novel cognitive capability of AI-powered and cognition-enabled robots. By combining digital twin technology with symbolic knowledge representation and embodying
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Thursday Morning Talk Fariba Karimi (Graz University of Technology), “Complexity Science for Societal Good”
MAR 2.057Abstract: Social inequalities -- structured and recurrent patterns of unequal distribution of wealth, opportunities, and rewards -- are on the rise, and quick-fix, top-down approaches are failing. Structural inequality is
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Thursday Morning Talk Heiner Spieß (Science of Intelligence), “Tools to Study the Generality of Deep Neural Network Representations”
More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI.
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Thursday Morning Talk Jacek Wiland, “Assessing the Factual Knowledge Contained in Language Models During Lifelong Learning”
More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI.
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Thursday Morning Talk Hector Garcia De Marina (University of Granada), “Practical Challenges in Formation Control and Mobile Robot Swarms”
MAR 2.057Abstract: Robot swarms have the potential to assist us with simpler logistics in persistent missions involving vast scenarios. Robot swarms also promise added resilience to complete their objectives despite unforeseen
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Thursday Morning Talk Pavel Němec (Charles University), “Two Independent Origins of Complex Brains and Intelligent Behavior in Birds and Mammals”
Abstract: Over the last 20 years, it has been shown that birds and mammals are startlingly similar in their cognitive repertoire. Even the most intelligent taxa from each group –
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Distinguished Speaker Series Serge Belongie (University of Copenhagen), “Searching for Structure in Unfalsifiable Claims”
Abstract: While advances in automated fact-checking are critical in the fight against the spread of misinformation in social media, we argue that more attention is needed in the domain of
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For the Public Girls’ Day 2024
This year, SCIoI is once again delighted to be part of Girls' Day, an event dedicated to offering school-aged girls the opportunity to explore new experiences and gain insights into
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Thursday Morning Talk Joshua B. Evans, “Creating Multi-Level Skill Hierarchies in Reinforcement Learning”
Abstract: What is a useful skill hierarchy for an autonomous agent? In this talk, we will consider a possible answer based on a graphical representation of how the interaction between
