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“The Ethics of AI-chemy – When Science meets Hype” – Keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Oliver Brock

HU Berlin - Institut für Biologie Phillipstraße 12/13a, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Winter School Keynote Lecture: Oliver Brock (Cluster Science of Intelligence, TU Berlin) Cluster Speaker Prof. Dr. Oliver Brock will deliver the keynote lecture at this year's Winter School Ethics and Neuroscience. The 9th Winter School "Ethics and Neuroscience is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. The event is

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Pascal Klink (TU Darmstadt): Self-paced Reinforcement Learning

MAR23 4.064 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

Thursday Morning Lectures Abstract: Generalization and adaptation of learned skills to novel situations is a core requirement for intelligent autonomous robots. Although contextual reinforcement learning provides a principled framework for learning and generalization of behaviors across related tasks, it generally relies on uninformed sampling of environments from an unknown, uncontrolled context distribution, thus missing the

Prof. Katja Liebal (FU Berlin): Understanding the human mind: The value of a comparative perspective

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Abstract:  Are humans unique? If so, which cognitive and communication skills characterize human beings? Are these characteristics universal, or do they vary depending on the individual's social, ecological, and cultural background? While it may sound plausible that answering these questions requires the comparison of different cultural groups to learn about the universals and variability of

Pia Bideau and Raphael Deimel: Boost your experiments!

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

"Boost your experiments!" The ScioI cluster provides for several post-doc level research positions for improving scientific integration across disciplines, as well as for advancing the level of sophistication in experiments we can conduct in the ScioI Labs. Currently, there are two "support" post-docs, Pia Bideau and Raphael Deimel. Pia is an expert in motion-based image

Zoom Talk: Ralf Kurvers (MPI): How to sway voters

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Thursday morning talk How to sway voters Across the world, politicians challenging the established elite are rising. Presenting contrarian views with high confidence, these politicians challenge the status quo, calling for a radically different course of action, often going against scientific evidence. Systematic investigations of the success of such ‘contrarian’ strategies are, however, absent. Though

Zoom Lecture: Fatma Deniz (UC Berkeley & TU Berlin): Natural Language Representations in the Human Brain

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Thursday Morning Lectures (on Zoom) Natural Language Representations in the Human Brain   Abstract An integral part of human language is the capacity to extract the meaning of words through different sensory modalities. For example, humans can easily comprehend the meaning of language presented through auditory speech or written text. However, how the human brain

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Martin Rolfs (SCIoI): The impact of visual actions on human vision

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PI Lecture on Zoom The impact of visual actions on human vision More than 10,000 times every waking hour, we use rapid movements of our eyes, head and body to reorient our gaze. These visual actions allow us to see every aspect of the visual world at the highest resolution. It seems likely — in

Zoom Lecture: Oliver Brock, Verena Hafner, Pawel Romanczuk (SCIoI): The Role of Example Behaviors in Science of Intelligence and for Your Project

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Thursday Morning Talk (on Zoom) Abstract: One of the assumptions made in the original SCIoI proposal is that intelligence is non-decomposable. This means that intelligent behavior results to a large degree from the interactions between component and not only from the components themselves.  Components have different names, depending on what discipline you are from.  If

Zoom Talk: Marc Touissant (SCIoI), “SCIoI proposal discussion: Rethinking Decisions and Tasks”

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ABSTRACT: The goal of this presentation is to discuss a potential project proposal within RU2 of SCIoI, in particular, to initiate a discussion with researchers from the analytic side. I will first briefly introduce our recent work on physical reasoning and manipulation planning. This work required us to develop elaborate solvers which influenced my view

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Rebecca Lazarides (SCIoI): The role of teaching and instruction for human learning processes

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Abstract: Learning - here defined as knowledge acquisition and behavioral changes caused by experiences - is a central prerequisite for the development of humans, animals, and some artificial agents. Against the backdrop of psychological and educational theories of learning and related empirical studies, the talk addresses the following questions: How is learning influenced by social