What is Collective Intelligence?
From ice fishers in Finland to sardine shoals under attack by marlins in the Atlantic, nature is full of surprising strategies for group decision-making. But what do these strategies have in common with swarms of robots, and what can they teach us about building the technologies of tomorrow?
In this event, computer scientist Palina Bartashevich takes the audience to the waters off Mexico, where her team studied hunting marlins in action. With drone footage and field stories, she shows how animal groups adapt and respond collectively to challenges. Following her talk, ethicist Marten Kaas will moderate a lively panel with scientists Valerii Chirkov, Yunus Sevinchan, and Yating Zheng, diving deeper into the surprising similarities between human, animal, and robotic swarms.
Collective intelligence, it turns out, works like a distributed brain, and understanding it may be key to designing the next generation of smart artificial agents.
Speakers: Palina Bartashevich, Marten Kaas, Valerii Chirkov, Yunus Sevinchan, Yating Zheng
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The Inter-Cluster Science Slam
Entertaining, surprising, scientific: the Cluster Science Slam is one of Berlin Science Week’s liveliest formats. Here, early-career researchers from the seven Berlin Clusters of Excellence have just six minutes to captivate the audience with their work, whether through props, costumes, music, or sheer storytelling talent.
This year, SCIoI is represented by Anna Lange and Vito Mengers, who will take the stage alongside fellow slammers from mathematics, neuroscience, cultural studies, and beyond (coming from the seven Clusters of Excellence: MATH+, UniSysCat, Temporal Communities, SCRIPTS, Matters of Activity, and NeuroCure). Expect creativity, laughter, and plenty of “aha” moments as research comes alive under the spotlight. The twist: it’s the audience who decides the winner.
SCIoI Slammers: Anna Lange, Vito Mengers
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Excellent Pub Quiz
Think you know it all? Test your knowledge at the Excellent Pub Quiz, where Berlin’s seven Clusters of Excellence join forces for a night of brain-teasing fun. Each quiz focuses on the research of one cluster in the monthly format, and this time, the spotlight is on Science of Intelligence.
Together with your team, you’ll tackle surprising and tricky questions spanning psychology, neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Along the way, SCIoI’s Dafna Burema will introduce you to her work: How ethics underlies the research to crack the mystery of intelligence and to lay the foundations for sustainable, safe technologies of the future.
Of course, questions from the other six clusters (MATH+, UniSysCat, Temporal Communities, SCRIPTS, Matters of Activity, and NeuroCure) will keep you on your toes as well. With a live performance, prizes, and a good dose of friendly competition, you’re guaranteed to leave smarter than when you arrived.
Featuring SCIoI ethicist Dafna Burema
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The event is going to take place in German.
