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CAVAA workshop 01

Compressed representations and allostatic control for virtual agents

14:00 CET, 23 April 2024 | Duration: 2 hours - Online

CAVAA workshop 02

Compressed representations and allostatic control for virtual agents

14:00 CET, 23 April 2024 | Duration: 2 hours - Online

CAVAA General Assembly Meeting #02

The second CAVAA General Assembly Meeting will take place on 22. February 2024. Two workshops are open for external people. More information can be found on the workshop page.

CAVAA Executive Board Meeting #02

The first CAVAA Executive Board meeting took place virtually on 02. February 2024.

CAVAA lectures finalised

A series of lectures were held for knowledge exchange between the different disciplines involved in the project.

  • Distributed Adaptive Control theory of awarenes and its role in the CAVAA project.
  • The basal ganglia and the role of cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loops
  • Centers providing visual perception in the CAVAA project
  • How and why does consciousness matter?
  • Drive competition underlies effective allostatic orchestration
  • Theoretical and Ethical Challenges
  • Working groups on DCBT summer school

Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality. (copy)
  • Date: September 20, 2023
  • Speaker: Paul Verschure
  • Affiliation: SRU
  • Event: EIC Portfolio Ethics Meeting
  • Title/Topic: Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality.

Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality.
  • Date: September 20, 2023
  • Speaker: Michele Farisco
  • Affiliation: UU
  • Event: EIC Portfolio Ethics Meeting
  • Title/Topic: Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality.

Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality.
  • Date: September 18, 2023
  • Speaker: Michele Farisco
  • Affiliation: UU
  • Event: CRB Seminar, University of Uppsala
  • Title/Topic: Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality.

Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning mechanisms in brains and robots.
  • Date: September 14, 2023
  • Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
  • Affiliation: SORB
  • Event: ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference, Max Planck Society, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Title/Topic: Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning mechanisms in brains and robots.

Reinforcement learning and decision-making algorithms at the crossroads between AI and Neuroscience
  • Date: September 12, 2023
  • Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
  • Affiliation: SORB
  • Event: Summer school of the French society of Philosophy of science (SPS), Fréjus, France
  • Title/Topic: Reinforcement learning and decision-making algorithms at the crossroads between AI and Neuroscience

Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality
  • Date: September 12, 2023
  • Speaker: Michele Farisco
  • Affiliation: UU
  • Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Title/Topic: Artificial Awareness: moving from theoretical possibility towards empirical actuality

Sample and memory efficiency in episodic reinforcement learning
  • Date: September 8, 2023
  • Speaker: Ismael Freire Gonzalez
  • Affiliation: SRU
  • Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Title/Topic: Sample and memory efficiency in episodic reinforcement learning

The Distributed Adaptive Control of episodic reinforcement learning
  • Date: September 6, 2023
  • Speakers: Ismael T. Freire, Adrián F. Amil & Oscar Guerrero Rosado
  • Affiliation: SRU
  • Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Title/Topic: The Distributed Adaptive Control of episodic reinforcement learning

From Homeostasis to Allostasis: Self-regulatory approaches to Autonomy
  • Date: September 5, 2023
  • Speakers: Alejandro Jiménez Rodríguez (USFD) & Oscar Guerrero Rosado (SRU)
  • Affiliation: SRU, USFD
  • Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Title/Topic: From Homeostasis to Allostasis: Self-regulatory approaches to Autonomy

The synthetic psychology of the self: understanding human motivation and awareness through robotics
  • Date: September 5, 2023
  • Speaker: Tony Prescott
  • Affiliation: USFD
  • Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Title/Topic: The synthetic psychology of the self: understanding human motivation and awareness through robotics

Goal-directed and habitual behavior
  • Date: September 5, 2023
  • Speaker: Fred Hamker
  • Affiliation: TUC
  • Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Title/Topic: Goal-directed and habitual behavior

CAVAA @ DCBT Summer School

Visit the conference website: https://dcbt.specs-lab.com/dcbt23/

Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning mechanisms in brains and robot
  • Date: September 4, 2023
  • Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
  • Affiliation: SORB
  • Event: Donders Brain Cognition & Technology summer school, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Title/Topic: Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning mechanisms in brains and robot

Evidence, value, and action: from cortex to behavior, and everything in between
  • Date: July 19, 2023
  • Speaker: Fred Hamker
  • Affiliation: TUC
  • Event: 32nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2023, Leipzig, Germany
  • Title/Topic: Evidence, value, and action: from cortex to behavior, and everything in between

Simulation of spiking and BOLD signals using the ANNarchy simulator
  • Date: July 15, 2023
  • Speaker: Helge Ülo Dinkelbach, Julien Vitay & Fred Hamker
  • Affiliation: TUC
  • Event: Tutorial T11
  • Title/Topic: Simulation of spiking and BOLD signals using the ANNarchy simulator

Anthropomorphism in synthetic agents: A relational view on AI ethics
  • Date: July 15, 2023
  • Speaker: Tony Prescott
  • Affiliation: USFD
  • Event: AAIC Technology and dementia workshop, Amsterdam
  • Title/Topic: Anthropomorphism in synthetic agents: A relational view on AI ethics

Towards a computational model of human decisional autonomy and a formalization of constraints on machine autonomy
  • Date: June 29, 2023
  • Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
  • Affiliation: SORB
  • Event: AI Ethics Conference, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Title/Topic: Towards a computational model of human decisional autonomy and a formalization of constraints on machine autonomy

Drive competition underlies effective allostatic orchestration
  • Date: June 19, 2023
  • Speaker: Oscar Guerrero Rosado
  • Affiliation: SRU
  • Event: CAVAA online seminar
  • Title/Topic: Drive competition underlies effective allostatic orchestration

Can computational models of human decisional autonomy help us formalize constraints on robot autonomy?
  • Date: June 6, 2023
  • Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
  • Affiliation: SORB
  • Event: Conference on Philosophy of AI and LLMs, AI Observatory, Paris, France
  • Title/Topic: Can computational models of human decisional autonomy help us formalize constraints on robot autonomy?

Prediction of cell activation sequences by computational models
  • Date: May 30, 2023
  • Speaker: Mehdi Khamassi
  • Affiliation: SORB
  • Event: Spring Hippocampal Research Conference (Session), Verona, Italy
  • Title/Topic: Prediction of cell activation sequences by computational models

Robotics perspectives on the emergence of the interpersonal self
  • Date: April 18, 2023
  • Speaker: Tony Prescott
  • Affiliation: USFD
  • Event: Italian Institute of Technology
  • Title/Topic: Robotics perspectives on the emergence of the interpersonal self

Designing social robots that people can relate to
  • Date: March 6, 2023
  • Speaker: Tony Prescott
  • Affiliation: USFD
  • Event: Department of Computer Science, University of Kent
  • Title/Topic: Designing social robots that people can relate to

CAVAA seminar on The role of episodic memory in learning and control
  • Date: February 6, 2023
  • Speaker: Ismael Freire Gonzalez
  • Affiliation: SRU
  • Event: CAVAA online seminar
  • Title/Topic: The role of episodic memory in learning and control

CAVAA seminar on Generalization of sequential episodic control
  • Date: January 30, 2023
  • Speaker: Ismael Freire Gonzalez
  • Affiliation: SRU
  • Event: CAVAA online seminar
  • Title/Topic: Generalization of sequential episodic control

CAVAA lectures started

A series of lectures was created and is still running for knowledge exchange between the different disciplines involved in the project.  

CAVAA Executive Board Meeting #01

The first CAVAA Executive Board meeting took place virtually on 13. December 2022.

CAVAA kick-off meeting

The kick-off meeting took place virtually on 27.-28. October 2022.

CAVAA project started in October 2022

The CAVAA project started in October 2022. A press release is in preparation.