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Dimitri Coelho Mollo

Principal Investigator

Philosophy of AI

Umea University

 

Email:
dimitri.mollo@umu.se

 

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo

Dimitri Coelho Mollo

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Dimitri Coelho Mollo’s main areas of research are Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (including Philosophy of Neuroscience and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence), and Philosophy of Computing. He is also interested in Philosophy of Biology, General Philosophy of Science, and the ethics of current and future use of AI systems. Since April 2022, Dimitri is Assistant Professor at Umeå University. Dimitri’s aim is to help shed light on the nature of intelligence and intelligent behavior by bringing together relevant empirical and theoretical insights from different fields, including philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, comparative psychology, and ethology. His project aims at revealing some of the underlying theoretical principles and core notions required to make sense of intelligence in biological and artificial systems. To do so, Dimitri examines candidate foundational notions relevant for understanding intelligence, such as representation, computation, and embodiment, as well as the internal and external factors that may be required for intelligent behavior to be possible.

Projects

Dimitri Coelho Mollo is member of Project 20.

Lindström, A. D., Methnani, L., Krause, L., Ericson, P., Martínez de Rituerto de Troya, Í., Coelho Mollo, D., & Dobbe, R. (2024). AI Alignment through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback? Contradictions and Limitations. ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.18346
Coelho Mollo, D. (2024). AI-as-exploration: Navigating intelligence space. ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.07964
Coelho Mollo, D., & Vernazzani, A. (2023). The formats of cognitive representation: a computational account. Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.123
Coelho Mollo, D., & Millière, R. (2023). The Vector Grounding Problem. ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.07964
Aler Tubella, A., Coelho Mollo, D., Dahlgren Lindström, A., Devinney, H., Dignum, V., Ericson, P., Jonsson, A., Kampik, T., Lenaerts, T., Mendez, J. A., & Nieves, J. C. (2023). ACROCPoLis: A Descriptive Framework for Making Sense of Fairness. FAccT ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 1014–1025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3593013.3594059
Coelho Mollo, D. (2022). Intelligent Behaviour. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00552-8
Coelho Mollo, D. (2021). Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science. Mind & Language, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12364
Coelho Mollo, D. (2021). Why go for a computation-based approach to cognitive representation. Synthese, 199(3), 6875–6895. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03097-5
Coelho Mollo, D., Millière, R., Rathkopf, C., & Stinson, C. (2021). Conceptual Combinations – Benchmark task for Beyond the Imitation Game Benchmark. Github. https://github.com/google/BIG-bench/tree/main/bigbench/benchmark_tasks/conceptual_combinations
Coelho Mollo, D. (2020). Against Computational Perspectivalism. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz036

Perraudin, L., Brock, O., Coelho Mollo, D., Mareis, C., Müller, M., Nestler, A., Puhlmann, S., Schäffner, W., Steinhardt, S. 2021. »Wenn Materie lebendig wird«. Experimentallabor für Wissenschaftskommunikation »CollActive Materials«. Berlin University Alliance, project funding for 2022-2024.
https://www.collactive-materials.de/

Research

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