<div dir="ltr"><div>Call for participation in the AAAI 2020 Fall Symposium on 
Conceptual Abstraction and Analogy in Natural and Artificial 
Intelligence. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Organized by Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute), François Chollet (Google), and Kevin Ellis (MIT).  <br></div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/abstractionfall2020" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/abstractionfall2020</a> for more information and submission information.  <br></div><div><br></div><div> Short description: <span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Current
 AI systems largely lack the abilities to form humanlike concepts and 
abstractions.  Understanding what concepts are—how they are formed, can 
be abstracted and flexibly used in diverse situations via analogy, how 
they compose to produce new concepts—is not only key to a deeper 
understanding of intelligence, but will be essential for engineering 
non-brittle AI systems, ones that can robustly adapt their knowledge to 
diverse situations and modalities.  Such an understanding will require 
collaboration among AI researchers and cognitive scientists studying the
 nature and development of concepts from different perspectives.  This 
symposium will bring together leading researchers across disciplines to 
discuss the mechanisms underlying concepts, abstraction, and analogy in 
natural and artificial intelligence. <br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates: <br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Lato;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:7.5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6667;margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Submissions due:  August 7</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:7.5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6667;margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notifications of acceptance sent by organizers: August 21</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:7.5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6667;margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Final papers due: September 25 </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:7.5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6667;margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration deadline: September 17</span> <br></p></li></ul><div><br></div><div>For more information, go to <a href="https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/abstractionfall2020" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/abstractionfall2020</a> or contact <a href="mailto:mm@pdx.edu" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-il">mm@pdx.edu</span></a>. <div class="gmail-adL"><br><br></div></div></div></div>