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Colleagues,
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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">despite
significant progress relations between artificial
intelligence and neuroscience
are far from being fully explored. Several prominent authors
- Y. Bengio, T.
Poggio, D. Hassabis, M. Botvinick, S. Grossberg <br>
and many others - have stressed
that the best road to artificial general intelligence is
requires taking<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>inspirations
from neuroscience seriously.
Recent call for the special issue on "AI and Neuroscience"
in the
Cognitive Computation journal is also aimed at such
explorations. Neuroscience
may provide ideas to improve machine learning algorithms. On
the other hand ML
provides support for analysis of neuroscience data, and
helps to create models
of information<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>processing
by the brain. </p>
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lang="en-US"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">At the
past two Polish Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
(PP-RAI) we have
organized small special sessions devoted to neuroscience. We
are convinced that
both communities may learn from each other. </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">The third
PP-RAI conference will be held on 25-27 April 2022 in
Gdynia, Poland. It should
at least be partially on-site, but most likely hybrid
sessions will have to be
organized. A special track "Neuroinformatics" will be
devoted to
interactions between AI and neuroscience. It may be a good
opportunity to
discuss your ideas before submitting them for a final
publication. </p>
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lang="en-US"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">We have
already confirmation that prof. Andrzej Cichocki and prof.
Dongrui Wu will
deliver invited talks. </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">We shall
select presentation on the basis of abstracts or papers. <br>
For details on the Conference,
please visit:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a
href="http://pp-rai2022.umg.edu.pl/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://pp-rai2022.umg.edu.pl/</a></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">Special
journal issues may be organized after the conference, but
that depends on the
number and quality of papers that will be presented. </p>
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lang="en-US"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">We look
forward to hearing from you. Please send your
abstracts/papers to
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wduch@umk.pl">wduch@umk.pl</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">Best
wishes</p>
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lang="en-US"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">Włodek
Duch and Julian Szymański, </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US">on behalf
of the PP-RAI Conference Chairs and the Steering Committee</p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"
lang="en-US"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt">--
</p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt">Prof.
Włodzisław
Duch </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt">Fellow,
International Neural Network Society </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt">Past
President,
European Neural Network Society </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt">Head,
Neurocognitive
Laboratory, CMIT NCU, Poland </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"><span
lang="pl">Google:
</span><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Wlodek+Duch"><span
lang="en-US">Wlodzislaw
Duch</span></a></p>
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