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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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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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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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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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