Workshop III: Naturalistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence - IPAM

Workshop III: Naturalistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence

Part of the Long Program Mathematics of Intelligences
November 4 - 8, 2024

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, November 4, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster
09:00-09:50
Stephanie Forrest (Arizona State University)
Biology of Computation
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Sanjoy Dasgupta (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Neural machines: From fruit flies to embedded devices
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
David Wolpert (Santa Fe Institute)
From Smith’s Invisible Hand to Distributed Optimization and Control

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster
14:30-15:20
Levi Lelis (University of Alberta)
Learning Libraries of Programmatic Policies
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Christopher Hillar (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
From McCulloch-Pitts to Retina
17:00-17:15
Lightning Poster Session
17:15-18:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Erica Cartmill
09:00-09:50
Andrew Barron (Macquarie University)
Honey bee intelligence: thinking with one million neurons
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Tai-Danae Bradley (SandboxAQ)
An Enriched Category Theory of Language
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
David Spivak (Topos Institute)
Plausible Fiction: Accounting for Potential Actualization

Afternoon Session

Group Photo
12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Stephanie Forrest
14:30-15:20
Tom Griffiths (Princeton University)
Understanding human intelligence through human limitations
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London)
How can large language models become more human?

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Morning Session

09:30-10:30
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
10:30-11:30
Discussion
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Tom Griffiths
13:30-14:20
Michael Levin (Tufts University)
Non-neural intelligence: biological architectures for problem-solving in diverse spaces
14:30-14:45
Break
14:45-15:35
Sean Tull (Quantinuum)
Towards Compositional Interpretability for XAI
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Martha Lewis (University of Amsterdam)
Compositional Approaches to Modelling Language and Concepts

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Martha Lewis
09:00-09:50
Sumit Gulwani (Microsoft - Redmond, WA)
Program Synthesis: Applications, Experiences, and Neuro-Symbolic Techniques
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Kevin Ellis (Cornell University)
Probabilistic Thinking in Language and Code
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Aishni Parab (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Extracting Structured Data from Multi-Modal Input

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Martha Lewis
14:30-15:20
Erik Winfree (California Institute of Technology)
Equilibrium is inference: lessons from a model of liquid-liquid phase separation
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Swarat Chaudhuri (University of Texas at Austin)
Abstraction and Evolution with Large Language Models

Friday, November 8, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
SESSION CHAIR: Sumit Gulwani
09:00-09:50
Una-May O-Reilly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adversarial Intelligence in Natural and Artificial Systems
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Sequential Decision Making with Information Asymmetry
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Pronita Mehrotra (MindAntix, Inc.)
Cognitive Mechanisms That Power Learning and Creativity

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
SESSION CHAIR: Sumit Gulwani
14:00-14:50
Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Scaling Intelligence the Human Way
15:00-15:30
Break
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