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
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster
9:00 - 9:50
Stephanie Forrest (Arizona State University)

Biology of Computation
PDF Presentation
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
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster
2:30 - 3:20
Levi Lelis (University of Alberta)

Learning Libraries of Programmatic Policies
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Christopher Hillar (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

From McCulloch-Pitts to Retina

5:00 - 5:15 Lightning Poster Session
5:15 - 6:30 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

SESSION CHAIR: Erica Cartmill
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Tai-Danae Bradley (SandboxAQ)

An Enriched Category Theory of Language
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20

Group Photo
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Stephanie Forrest
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London)

How can large language models become more human?


Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Morning Session
9:30 - 10:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
10:30 - 11:30 Discussion
11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Tom Griffiths
1:30 - 2:20
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:35
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

SESSION CHAIR: Martha Lewis
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Kevin Ellis (Cornell University)

Probabilistic Thinking in Language and Code
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Aishni Parab (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Extracting Structured Data from Multi-Modal Input

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Martha Lewis
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Swarat Chaudhuri (University of Texas at Austin)

Abstraction and Evolution with Large Language Models


Friday, November 8, 2024

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

SESSION CHAIR: Sumit Gulwani
9:00 - 9:50
Una-May O-Reilly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Adversarial Intelligence in Natural and Artificial Systems
PDF Presentation
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
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

SESSION CHAIR: Sumit Gulwani
2:00 - 2:50
Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Scaling Intelligence the Human Way

3:00 - 3:30 Break