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In contrast to many contemporary AI systems, intelligent behaviour in animals - including humans - arises from the interaction of brains, bodies and the environment and is quintessentially robust but also flexible and dynamic so that it can rapidly adapt to changing conditions. In order to understand biological intelligence and build next generation AI systems of similar robustness and flexibility we will need to move beyond replicating neural mechanisms in algorithmic form and develop a deep understanding of the nested and tightly coupled interactions among brains, bodies, and environments.
The be.AI conference is an interdisciplinary conference for AI research spanding from computational neuroscience and robotics to philosphy and music. Talks will be given at our brandnew 28 million pound student centre conference room. There will be a poster exhibition throughout the day made up of AI related research. The psoter exhibition is open to keen undergraduate finalists, masters, PhD and above.

be.AI conference, 4th May 2023, 09:00 - 17:20

Speakers

Directors

Professor Andy Philippedes	Professor Paul Graham	Professor Thomas Nowotny

Biorobotics, biomimetic navigation, active AI	Spatial cognition, active AI	Olfaction, biomimetic AI, hybrid systems

Organising committee

Anindya Ghosh	Ben White	Dexter Shepherd	Raikahn Gabdrashova

Neural computation, biorobotics	Philosophy, cognitive science, embodied cognition	Biorobotics, evolutionary robotics, embodied AI	Systems neuroscience, predictive processing, sensory neuroscience

be.AI is directed by Profs Thomas Nowotny, Andrew Philippides (both in the AI research group in Informatics) and Paul Graham (Neurosciences Division in Life Sciences), supported by an Academic Board, whose membership currently comprises Prof Luc Berthouze, Dr Chris Buckley, Dr Julie Weeds (all in the AI research group in Informatics) Prof Daniel Roggen (Engineering), Prof Thomas Baden (Life Sciences) and Prof Andy Clark (Philosophy).
The Advisory Board includes Prof Margaret Boden, OBE ScDFBA, co-founder of COGS, as the honorary Head of be.AI, Prof Cecilia Laschi (Pisa, Italy), Prof Martin Nawrot (Universität Köln), and Prof James Marshall (Opteran Technologies and University of Sheffield).

Dr Dan Goodman	Dr Rui Ponte Costa

Neural computation	Machine learning, neural computation
Dr Miguel Aguilera	Prof Miguel Maravall Rodriguez

Computational neuroscience	Sensory processing
Dr Alex Penn	Dr Henry Shevlin

Complexity science	Philosphy of AI
Dr Maxine Sherman	Dr Adam Barrett

Cognitive neuroscience	Consciousness studies

	Speaker	Title
09:00	Director welcome
09:15	Henry Shevlin	Uncanny communicators
10:00	Adam Barrett	Consciousness, neural complexity and integrated information
10:45	Tea break
11:15	Maxine Sherman	Human metacognition and uncertainty estimation
12:00	Miguel Maravall	Neuronal sensitivity to multiple task variables induced in the mouse somatosensory and associative cortex
12:45	Lunch break
13:45	Miguel Aguilera	Nonequilibrium Neural Computation: Stochastic thermodynamics of the asymmetric Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
14:30	Alex Penn
15:15	Posters and break
15:45	Rui Ponte Costa
16:30	Dan Goodman	Multimodal units extract comodulated information
17:15	Closing address
17:20	End of Conference

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