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Work-in-progress Talk: Dimitri Coelho Mollo (SCIoI) & Alfredo Vernazzani (Ruhr Universität Bochum): Saving Representational Formats: A computational theory

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Abstract Most cognitive sciences (including AI) appeal to representations in explaining (or trying to create) systems capable of cognition, and especially of complex, intelligent behaviour. In philosophy, considerable attention has been dedicated to the problem of explaining in scientifically-acceptable ways how representations come to represent what they do. In contrast, there has been much less

SCIoI Scientific Networking Days (internal event)

Internal Event

The SCIoI Scientific Networking Days event is an internal retreat meant to establish scientific connections among the people and the projects in SCIoI. Through this event, we want to emphasize the importance of establishing scientific connections among SCIoI researchers and promote in-depth scientific discussions and exchanges. During the retreat, the SCIoI executive board will evaluate

Thursday Morning Talk with Rico Jonschkowski (Google Brain): Perception in Motion

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Title: Perception in Motion Abstract: This is a talk on perception in two parts. Part one exemplifies the "movement" of the field of learning-based robot perception. Here, I will give one example for increasing structural assumptions and one for decreasing them based on our work on differentiable mapping and differentiable resampling. Part two takes the

Thursday morning talk with Benjamin Wild: Social networks through time – Individuality in a colony of honey bees

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ABSTRACT: In many social systems, an individual’s role is reflected by its interactions with other members of the group. In many model organisms, and particularly in social insects, the patterns of actions and interactions among individuals are not static but constantly evolving over time. This can be due to the emergence or demise of certain

Distinguished Speaker Series

Guy Theraulaz, (CNRS, Toulouse, France. Host: Pawel Romanczuk): Ethological analysis and computational modeling of social interactions in schooling fish

Abstract: Swarms of insects, schools of fish and flocks of birds display an impressive variety of collective movement patterns that emerge from interactions among group members. These puzzling phenomena raise a variety of questions about the interaction rules that govern the coordination of individuals’ motion and the emergence of large-scale patterns. While numerous models have

Distinguished Speaker Series

Giovanni Pezzulo, ISTC-CNR Rome (Host: Verena Hafner): Human sensorimotor communication during human joint action: experimental and computational perspectives

Giovanni Pezzulo is a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council in Rome, Italy. His research centers on the neuronal and computational mechanisms of predictive processing, goal-directed behaviour, and the sensorimotor foundations of higher cognition. Human sensorimotor communication during human joint action: experimental and computational perspectives During online social interactions,

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Talk: Alex Kacelnik, Are WE more like we think THEY are, or are THEY more like we think WE are?

As part of the “6 o’clock with SCIoI” talk series within the Berlin Science Week 2020, Prof. Alex Kacelnik will take us on a fascinating journey through the understanding of intelligence in humans, animals and robots. Please visit the Berlin Science Week website to access the event. https://falling-walls.com/event/are-we-more-like-we-think-they-are-or-are-they-more-like-we-think-we-are/

Thursday Morning Talk

Robert Lange (SCIoI): “Learning not to learn, Nature versus nurture in silico”

Abstract: Animals are equipped with a rich innate repertoire of sensory, behavioral and motor skills, which allows them to interact with the world immediately after birth. At the same time, many behaviors are highly adaptive and can be tailored to specific environments by means of learning and exploration. In this work, we use mathematical analysis

PI Lecture

Lars Lewejohann (SCIoI): What’s on a mouse’s mind? Behavioral measures to understand animal’s experiences and needs

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What's on a mouse's mind? Behavioral measures to understand animal’s experiences and needs Lars Lewejohann, Freie Universität Berlin, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R) Abstract: Mice, as all other living creatures, have adapted to specific living conditions in the course of evolution. From our human

For the Public

Berlin Science Week Talk, Pawel Romanczuk And Ralf Kurvers (SCIoI), Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity? What Humans can Learn from Fish

Exploring swarm intelligence in fish and humans. As part of the “6 o’clock with SCIoI” talk series, scientists Pawel Romanczuk and Ralf Kurvers will explore swarm intelligence in fish and humans, investigating the role of single individuals and social interactions in collective decisions, also exploring when collectives make good decisions, and when they go wrong.

Berlin Science Week Talk, Michael Pauen (SCIoI): Is artificial intelligence intelligent?

A talk about the relation between human and artificial intelligence. As part of the 6 o’clock with SCIoI series of talks, Michael Pauen will discuss the relation between human and artificial intelligence. The most advanced AI systems today try to drive cars, care for the elderly, read texts or play soccer – things that we