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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: PIBBSS Speaker events comings up in February, published by DusanDNesic on February 1, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.
TLDR: The PIBBSS Speaker Series is happening in mid-February. Read more about the talks and register
on our website
. Sign up for future updates about our speaker events
here.
PIBBSS
regularly invites researchers from a wide range of fields studying intelligent behaviour and exploring their connections to the problem of AI Risk and Safety.
In the past, we had speakers such as
Michael Levin talking about
Morphogenesis as a form of intelligent problem-solving building towards a framework of Basal Cognition; J
osh Bongard about
efforts to build hybrid intelligent 'agents' at the intersection of biology, cognition and engineering; Miguel Aguilera on
Nonequilibrium Neural Computation; Steve Byrnes on
Challenges for Safe and Beneficial Brain-Like AI; or Tang Zhi Xuan on
Modeling Bayesian Bounded Rational Agents
.
We have a couple of speaker events are coming up in February.
Konrad Körding on "Interpretability of brains and neural networks"
Feb 12, 9AM PST/5PM UTC (
Register)
Daniel Polani on "Information and its Flow: a Pathway towards Intelligence"
Feb 16, 9AM PST/5PM UTC, (
Register)
Nathaniel Virgo on "Mathematical Perspectives on Goals and Beliefs in the Physical World: Extending on the 'Good Regulator Theorem'"
Feb 19, 6PM PST,/20th 2AM UTC, (
Register)
If you want to be informed about future events (we typically won't post about this going forward), signup
here to our speaker event specific email list.
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