[PlanetKR] Spotlight Seminar on AI - MARCO GORI - April 29 2024

[Antonio LIETO]

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The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA), in
collaboration with the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial
Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, UK) is pleased to announce the
next seminar of its Spotlight Seminars on AI initiative:

April, 29 – 5:00PM (CET)

Title: Consciousness and the Laws of Learning

Speaker: MARCO GORI, University of Siena

The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Science began
crossing their paths significantly during the Eighties when the
Connectionist wave strongly pushed the studies on Artificial Neural
Networks. The evolution of the last decades in AI with the focus on deep
learning and, recently, on generative AI, has been producing spectacular
results that were hardly predictable even by the fathers of the discipline.
However, when looking at early studies on Connectionism, most dreams are
still waiting to be realized, since most successful results rely on the
brute force coming from joining computational resources and large data
collections. This is far away from what we observe in Nature, where
cognition emerges simply from environmental interactions while processing
temporal information. In order to capture those natural processes and
prospect an alternative path to Machine Learning, in this talk I give a
preliminary view of cognitive systems whose environmental interactions are
dictated by genetic features that are translated into the minimization of
an objective functional over time. This functional, that is referred to as
the cognitive action of the system, replaces the classic Machine Learning
statistical functional risk. I use the apparatus of Theoretical Physics and
Optimal Control to derive unified laws of cognition for learning and
inference and show that Hamiltonian

equations in their causal dissipative form approximate the optimal solution
over the entire data collection of the agent life. This comes from imposing
the evolution on a Hamiltonian track which gives rise to a computational
scheme for both focus of attention and conscious actions.

Bio:  Marco Gori is full professor of computer science at the University of
Siena and 3IA chair at Université Côte d’Azur, Nice (MAASAI lab
https://team.inria.fr/maasai/team-members/).  His research interests are in
the field of artificial intelligence, with emphasis on machine learning,
vision, and game playing. In the last few years, he has been mainly
involved in the unification of computational processes of reasoning and
learning, driven by the principle that the the emergence of cognition is
rooted in natural laws of computation.  He also very much like discussions
on novel models of computation and their relationships with human brain.

The joint AI*IA/AISB Committee of the Spotlight Seminars on AI,

Giuseppe De Giacomo

Floriana Grasso

Antonio Lieto

Bertie Muller

Luciano Serafini

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Antonio Lieto, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Salerno,
DISPC, Italy
Head of Cognition Interaction and Intelligent Technologies Lab (CIIT Lab) @
Unisa
https://www.ciitlab.org
Research Associate at ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy
Home: https://www.antoniolieto.net
ACM Distinguished Speaker: https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/lieto_12489

Deputy Editor in Chief of JETAI (Journal of Exp. & Theor. Artif. Intell.,
T&F)
https://www.tandfonline.com/jetai
<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=teta20>

Associate Editor of Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier)
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research/editorial-board


Author of "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" (2021), Routledge, Taylor
& Francis.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138207950
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