Connectionists: AAAI 2020 Fall Symposium on Conceptual Abstraction and Analogy

[Melanie Mitchell]

Call for participation in the AAAI 2020 Fall Symposium on Conceptual
Abstraction and Analogy in Natural and Artificial Intelligence.

Organized by Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute), François Chollet
(Google), and Kevin Ellis (MIT).

See https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/abstractionfall2020 for more
information and submission information.

Short description: 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.

Important Dates:


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    Submissions due:  August 7
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     Notifications of acceptance sent by organizers: August 21
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     Final papers due: September 25
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      Registration deadline: September 17


For more information, go to
https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/abstractionfall2020 or contact mm at pdx.edu.
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