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Giovanni Beltrame (Polytechnique Montreal), “Field collective robotics: Challenges and applications”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Giovanni Beltrame is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, where he leads the Making Innovative Space Technology (MIST) Laboratory. At MIST Lab, Giovanni is conducting projects in collaboration with industry and government agencies in areas such as robotics, disaster response, and space exploration. His research interests include the

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Stephen M. Fiore (University of Central Florida), “Studying artificial social intelligence: Understanding and examining social cognitive processes in human-machine collaborations”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

In this presentation Stephen M. Fiore will provide an overview of a body of research in social cognition and its relation to developing artificial social intelligence. In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), an important research direction is the development of systems that can work alongside and collaborate with humans as actual teammates.

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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