Alicia Burns, “Predator-Prey Interactions in the Open Ocean”
More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI. Photo by: Rodrigo Friscione Wyssmann.
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Thursday Morning Talk Asieh Daneshi, “The Effect of Group Size and Group Density on Behavioral Contagion in Humans”
More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI.
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Thursday Morning Talk Verena Wagner (University of Konstanz), “On Pause: Suspending Judgment and Abstaining in Machine Learning”
Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) systems typically yield definitive outputs, even when the underlying probabilities do not justify a decision. This poses a significant challenge in medical applications, where patients rely on individualized diagnoses, treatments, and prognoses. A recent advancement in ML research addresses this issue by introducing so-called “abstention models,” which enable ML systems to
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Distinguished Speaker Series Asifa Majid (University of Oxford), “Establishing Human Universals”
Abstract: Psychology, the "science of mental life", aims to provide models and theories that apply universally. However, there is a growing concern that what we gather from studying humans in a particular place and time might not accurately reflect how humans behave in other contexts. This talk will consider how we can establish whether something
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Iain Couzin (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior & University of Konstanz), “Collective Intelligence in Animals and Robots”
Abstract In 1905 the biologist Edmund Selous wrote of his wonderment when observing a flock of starlings flying overhead “they circle; now dense like a polished roof, now disseminated like the meshes of some vast all-heaven-sweeping net...wheeling, rending, darting...a madness in the sky”. He went on to speculate “They must think collectively, all at the
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Thursday Morning Talk Aravind Battaje (Science of Intelligence), “A Study on Human and Robot Perception and the Architecture of Perceptual Information Processing”
MAR 2.057More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences), “Integrated Information Theory – Or Why Consciousness is Fundamentally Distinct from Intelligence”
MAR 2.057Humans not only can act intelligently in the world but consciously experience it, such as the delectable taste of Nutella, the sharp sting of an infected tooth, or the terror and ecstasy of a near-death experience. I will discuss progress achieved in tracking the footprints of conscious experiences to the posterior regions of the cerebral cortex,
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Oren Forkosh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ” Behavior, Personality, Social Structure, and Emotions in Freely Behaving Groups of Mice and Other Animals”
MAR 2.057Abstract: In recent years, the study of animal behavior in neuroscience has seen a significant shift towards more naturalistic and less intrusive methods. It is under these conditions that the true spectrum of animal behavior can be exhibited, free from the artificial constraints and stressful conditions often imposed by traditional laboratory settings. In this talk, I will focus
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Brian Scholl (Yale University), “Visual Intelligence: On the Unexpected Sophistication of Perception “
MAR 2.057It is natural to think of vision as relatively primitive, compared to the richness of higher-level cognition. But recent work has revealed how perception is unexpectedly sophisticated along several related dimensions. First, recent work suggests that visual processing spontaneously extracts not only simple features such as color, shape, and motion, but also properties more associated
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Excellent Pub Quiz – LNDW 2024
Once again, the motto for the Long Night of the Sciences 2024 is: Invite friends for a team (2-4 people), find a creative team name and take part in the “Excellent Pub Quiz” of the seven Berlin Clusters of Excellence at TU Berlin and win great prizes! Find answers for exciting and surprising questions from
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PI Lecture Ralph Hertwig (Science of Intelligence), “How intelligent is deliberate ignorance?”
More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI.
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Katja Liebal (Universität Leipzig), “Comparative Approach to Human Cognition: Possibilities and Challenges”
MAR 2.057Aiming to understand human psychology and what makes humans “unique” benefits from a frame of reference against which to assess it. Comparing human psychology with that of other animals, particularly our closest relatives, nonhuman primates, can provide such a frame of reference and thereby contribute to identifying the defining characteristics of the human species. Studying
