Connectionists: [Meetings] CRNS Talk (10) - Live Talk by Prof. Jun Tani - Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology - Japan

[Amir Aly]

Dear All

**Apologies for cross-posting**

The* Center for Robotics and Neural Systems* (CRNS) is pleased to announce
the talk of *Prof. **Jun Tani* from *Okinawa Institute of Science and
Technology (OIST) *- Japan on Wednesday, *February 15th from 11:00
AM to 12:30 PM  *(*London time*) over *Zoom*. *Thank you for forwarding the
invitation to any of your colleagues who might be interested*.

>> *Events*: The CRNS talk series will cover a wide range of topics
including social and cognitive robotics, computational neuroscience,
computational linguistics, cognitive vision, machine learning, AI, and
applications to healthcare. More details are available here:

 https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/robotics-neural-systems/whats-on
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>> *Link for the next event (No Registration is Required)*:

Join Zoom Meeting

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>> *Title of the talk:  Exploring robotic minds by extending the framework
of predictive coding and active inference*

*Abstract*:

The focus of my research has been to investigate how cognitive agents can
develop structural representation and functions via iterative interaction
with the world, exercising agency and learning from resultant perceptual
experience. For this purpose, my team has developed various models
analogous to predictive coding and active inference frameworks based on the
free energy principle. Those models have been used for conducting diverse
robotics experiments which include goal-directed planning and replanning in
a dynamic environment, social embodied interactions with others,
development of the higher cognitive competency for executive control for
attention and working memory, embodied language, and others. The talk
focuses on a set of emergent phenomena which we observed in those robotics
experiments. These findings could inform us of possible non-trivial
accounts for understanding embodied cognition including the issues of
subjective experiences.


>> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me,

Regards

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*Dr. Amir Aly*

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)

School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics

Room A307 Portland Square, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA

University of Plymouth, UK
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