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Maarten Sap (Carnegie Mellon University), “Artificial social intelligence? On the challenges of socially aware and ethically informed LLMs”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Modern AI systems such as LLMs are pervasive and helpful, but do they really have the social intelligence to seamlessly and safely engage in interactions with humans? In this talk, Maarten Sap will delve into the limits of social intelligence of LLMs and how we can measure and anticipate their risks. He will introduce Sotopia,

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Goldie Nejat (University of Toronto)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More details to follow. Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash.

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Tucker Hermans (University of Utah, NVIDIA), “Learning and Planning with Relational Dynamics Models for Robot Manipulation”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More info will follow soon. This talk will take place as part of SCIoI member Svetlana Levit’s seminar “Selected Topics in Robot Learning,” which explores how advances in machine learning are helping robots operate in new environments, learn new behaviors, and adapt to changing conditions.

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Agnieszka Wykowska (The Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa), “Using humanoid robots to study human cognition”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Humanoid robots have recently received a lot of attention and enthusiasm in the robotics community and beyond. Indeed, with new technological advancements, they hold the promise to become our assistants in daily lives, as general-purpose machines. In this talk, however, Agnieszka Wykowska will focus on a different, less explored, way of using humanoids - as

Thursday Morning Talk

Marina Papadopoulou (University of Tuscia), “Behavioural rules underlying self-organized animal collectives”

From the foraging of ungulates and primates to the bait balls of fish and the murmurations of starlings, the dynamics of animal groups fascinate us with the mystery of their underlying social interactions. Identifying unique and common traits across systems can help us understand the self-organized mechanisms of their emergence, as well as the ecological

Thursday Morning Talk

Julten Abdelhalim, “Mastering Confident & Quick-witted Communication in Academia” Workshop

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

In this one-hour workshop, a toolbox of best-practise techniques for confident communication skills will be presented. This will equip attendees with a repertoire of rhetorical tools to communicate confidently and quick-wittedly in stressful situations. Participants will learn strategies to handle challenging questions and optimise their performance during academic debates. Another aim is to tackle dealing

External Event

Winter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” 2025

Campus Nord of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin at Ostertag-Haus, Philippstr.12, House 4 10115 Berlin

Science of Intelligence, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience are happy to invite to the Berlin Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" 2025. The Winter School is a five days conference which covers a broad field of topics from philosophical ethics to ethics of research and

Distinguished Speaker Series

Florian Engert (Harvard University), “Attentional Switching in Larval Zebrafish”

Decision making strategies in the face of conflicting or uncertain sensory input have been successfully described in many different species.  Here we analyze large behavioral datasets of larval zebrafish engaged in a ‘coherent dot’ optomotor assay. We find that animal performance is bimodal and can be separated into two ‘states’, an engaged state where performance

External Event

SCIoI at 5th International Conference on Embodied Intelligence

On Zoom

This event brings together a wide range of speakers to discuss the challenges and opportunities in Embodied Intelligence research. The conference is structured with a morning session and afternoon session each day to accommodate different time zones. Each session includes plenary talks, panel discussions (including flash talks by leading researchers), and breakout sessions. The conference

For the Public

Girls’ Day 2025

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

What is intelligence, and how can research contribute to improving current technologies with insights from this work? At the Girls' Day with the Excellence Cluster Science of Intelligence, you'll find out how scientists from various disciplines research the topic of intelligence. Through interactive exchanges, you can learn how researchers work to understand intelligence from different