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About this Workshop
5th IEEE RAS International Conference on Soft robotics 2022
This workshop and subsequent panel discussion will lay the ground work for alternative paradigms related to closing the gap of Physical AIs.
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We believe that paradigmatic level shifts in thinking across a multitude of seemingly unrelated fields - some big and some small - need to be realized.
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This workshop attempts to tie them together through a series of thought provoking questions, observations, and proposals.
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Our panel will fuse experience from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, robotics, and foundation models in machine learning, with panelists from academia, industry, and the field.
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Schedule
​(All times are PST) The workshop is on April 4th 2022 at Robosoft 2022 conference and will be held virtually.
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7:00 am - 7:15 am: Tarin / Filip / Todd: Intro
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7:15 am - 7:40 am: Dileep George [Evolution, inductive biases, and general intelligence towards Visual Reasoning]
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7:40 am - 8:05 am: Stephane Deny [Bio-inspired Deep Learning: Moving away from Pattern Recognition]
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8:05 am - 8:30 am: Melanie Mitchell [Abstraction and Analogy: The Keys to Robust AI]
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8:30 am - 9:00 am: Food/Coffee break
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9:00 am - 9:25 am: Paul Cisek [What can the history of real organisms tell us about synthetic ones?]
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9:25 am - 9:50 am: Tony Zador [A Critique of Pure Learning]
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9:50 am - 10:15 am: Josh Bongard [Dissolving dichotomous thinking in robots]
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10:15 am - 10:40 am: Michael Levin [Morphogenesis as Collective Intelligence of Cells: Non-neural substrates of cognition]
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10:40 am - 10:55 am: Coffee break
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11 am - 12:15 pm: PANEL DISCUSSION [ALL Speakers]