<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">* LOD-ACAIN 2023 Keynote Speakers and Lecturers - from Deep Learning to Generative Artificial Intelligence - Registration Deadline: July 20 *</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">it follows the list of the LOD-ACAIN 2023 Keynote Speakers and Lecturers:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>3</b></span><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-kerning:none"><b>^rd</b></span><span style="font-kerning:none"><b> International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience </b>–<b> ACAIN 2023</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Gabriel Barth-Maron</b>, DeepMind, London, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><i>“Multimodal Foundation Models”</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Anthony G. Cohn</b>, University of Leeds, UK & The Alan Turing Institute, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><i>“Evaluating the Commonsense Reasoning abilities of Foundation Models”</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Sven Giesselbach</b>, Fraunhofer Institute – IAIS, Germany</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><i>“Foundation Models” </i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><i>“GPT” </i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><i>“OpenGPT-X and Application and Practical Training of Large-Scale Language Models”</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(251,0,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://acain2023.icas.cc/course-lecturers/"><b>ACAIN 2023 Keynote Lecturers</b></a></span><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><b>:</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Karl Friston</b>, University College London, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 1: <i>“Deep inference”</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 2: <i>“Active inference and artificial curiosity”</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><i> </i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Kenneth Harris</b>, University College London, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 1: <i>“The large-scale structure of neural activity in the neocortex”</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 2: <i>“How cortical population activity relates to transcriptomic cell types”</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 3: <i>“Geometrical constraints on high-dimensional population codes”</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Rosalyn Moran</b>, King’s College London, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 1: <i>“The Free Energy Principle: A Neurobiological Generative AI? 1/2”</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 2: <i>“The Free Energy Principle: A Neurobiological Generative AI? 2/2”</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Edmund T. Rolls</b>, University of Warwick, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 1: <i>“Biologically plausible computational neuroscience: memory and navigation” </i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 2: <i>“Biologically plausible computational neuroscience: emotion and depression”</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>Michael Wooldridge</b>, University of Oxford, UK   </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence Journal</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 1: <i>“Connected AI. Basically an introduction to the field of multi-agent systems – how AI views interacting AI systems”</i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13.3px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">Lecture 2: <i>“Social Intelligence and AI. A much more speculative lecture about the role that social reasoning plays in intelligence, and might play in AI”</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none">         Alex  - LOD ACAIN 2023 Organizing Committee.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,27)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>3rd International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience </b></span><span style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><b>–</b></span><span style="font-kerning:none"><b> ACAIN 2023</b>, </span><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-kerning:none">September 22 – 26, 2023 – Grasmere, Lake District, England – UK </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,27)"><span style="font-kerning:none">The Course is equivalent to <b>8 ECTS points</b> for the <b>PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Course</b>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="font-kerning:none"><b>9th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science – LOD 2023, </b></span><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-kerning:none">September 22 – 26, 2023 – Grasmere, Lake District, England – UK</span></p>
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