Connectionists: Hybrid Inauguration Lecture Alexander von Humboldt professor Prof. Yaochu Jin

[Barbara Hammer]

Dear colleagues,

we have the pleasure to announce the inauguration speech of our new AI 
Alexander von Humboldt professor at Bielefeld University, Yaochu Jin, 
who will talk about the topic


      Towards Evolutionary Developmental Artificial Intelligence

*next Wednesday, April 27th, 4.15 pm*, in a hybrid lecture taking place 
in the lecture series of our joint AI institute JAII https://jaii.eu/

Please find the abstract below. Please register here 
<https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Apc--grT8tGdZFHLpvbhZMxEo3ZB3aHVcW> 
to get the link. More information are available at the JAII web site 
https://jaii.eu/

AvH professorships constitute the highest endowed individual research 
award in Germany's research landscape, granted to outstanding 
researchers in the field, with AI as recent special funding line: 
https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/entdecken/newsroom/dossier-alexander-von-humboldt-professur/yaochu-jin

Best wishes

Barbara

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      Hybrid Lecture by Humboldt Professor Yaochu Jin on April 27,
      16:15-17:45 CET,  "Towards Evolutionary Developmental Artificial
      Intelligence"

Considering the limitations of the deep learning approach to artificial 
intelligence, this talk proposes to understand and emulate human 
intelligence from an evolutionary developmental perspective. We first 
provide a brief introduction to the biological findings about evolution 
and development of human brain and nervous systems. Then preliminary 
computational models of neural and morphological evolution and 
development are presented. Experimental results reveal that energy 
minimization is a main principle behind the organization of nervous 
systems and there is a close coupling between body and brain in 
evolution and development. Finally, we describe some recent advances in 
computational modeling of neural plasticity embedded in the reservoir 
computing and discuss their influences on the learning performance of 
echo state networks and spiking neural networks. The talks is concluded 
by an outline of future research.


-- 
Prof. Dr. Barbara Hammer
Machine Learning Group, CITEC
Bielefeld University
D-33594 Bielefeld
Phone: +49 521 / 106 12115
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