*CALL FOR PAPERS – Anna’s AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines?
– Deadline: 15.09.2023*
Editor: Anna Strasser, DenkWerkstatt Berlin | Publisher: xenomoi Verlag,
Berlin |Website: https://www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/ANTHOLOGY-AI-2023
This anthology is inspired by the hybrid workshop ‘Human and Smart
Machines as Partners in Thought?’ organized by Anna Strasser & Eric
Schwitzgebel in May 2023 at UC Riverside. Invited and confirmed authors
are Daniel Dennett, Eric Schwitzgebel, Henry Shevlin, Joshua Rust, Keith
Frankish, Michael Wilby, Ophelia Deroy, Paula Droege, and Sven Nyholm.
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or other AI systems have been
the subject of widespread discussion. This book project aims to deliver
a comprehensive collection of philosophical analyses of our interactions
with AI systems, their capacities, and their impact on our society.
To address these issues, the following questions might serve as an
inspiration:
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/(1) //How should we describe interactions with AI systems?/ (tool use |
“social kinds” | conversational partners | intermediate category)
/(2) //What capacities can we ascribe to AI systems? /(e.g., agency
(linguistic actions in conversations | producing text | making
decisions); rationality (instrumental/reflective | mental
representations | thinking | comprehension); consciousness – desires –
sentience)
/(3) What impact will AI systems have on our society?/
– challenging traditional distinctions between thinking partners and
tools that merely produce strings of words
– emotional and intuitive pull to treat AI systems as sentient
– regulations – responsibility – control
Everyone who wants to participate in the CFP is encouraged to watch the
videos of the workshop!
– Please send an abstract with max. 1000 words as Pdf- or Word document
plus a short biographical note to: berlinerdenkwerkstatt@gmail.com
– Please use the following subject when submitting: Submission for CFP
Anna’s AI anthology
Formal details and further information:
https://www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/ANTHOLOGY-AI-2023
Tentative timeline:
Deadline for abstracts: 15.09.2023 | Acceptance: 15.10.2023 | Deadline
full paper: 24.12.2023 | Intended publication date: January/February 2024
We are organising the 27th International Conference on the Applications of
Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications) which will be held as part of
EvoStar on April 3-5, 2024, in Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom.
EvoApplications invites you to submit high-quality contributions on
applications of evolutionary computation and other nature-inspired
techniques.
The submission deadline is the 1st of November, 2023.
Please visit https://www.evostar.org/2024/evoapps/ for more information.
EvoApplications is in the conference ranking database CORE
http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2218/
Best regards,
The EvoApps 2024 chairs
Stephen Smith
João Correia
Christian Cintrano
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Call for papers for the EvoApps 2024 conference
https://www.evostar.org/2024/evoapps/
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2023
Conference: 3 to 5 April 2024.
Venue: Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
All accepted papers will be printed in the proceedings published by
Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
**** News ****
.EvoApps Special Sessions:
EvoApplications invites you to submit a special session proposal for its
27th edition.
Deadline: 8 September 2023 AoE.
https://www.evostar.org/2023/evoapps/
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EvoApplications, the International Conference on the Applications of
Evolutionary Computation -formerly known as EvoWorkshops- brings together
researchers in applications of Evolutionary Computation and other
Nature-inspired techniques.
EvoApplications invites high-quality contributions for its 27th edition,
which will be held as part of the EvoStar 2024 event and co-located within
EvoStar with three related conferences: EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoMUSART.
EvoApplications aims to create a friendly environment that can lead to the
establishment or strengthening of scientific collaborations and exchanges
among attendees.
Therefore, EvoApplications solicits high-quality original research papers
(including significant work-in-progress) on any aspect of applications of
Evolutionary Computation, both to real-world or methodological contexts in
which Evolutionary Computation can contribute to pushing the limits of the
state of the art beyond the present ones.
We encourage you to submit papers focused on interesting, relevant and
original works that are related to all kinds of applications of
Evolutionary Computation.
*** Important Dates, Venue and Publication ***
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2023
Conference: 3 to 5 April 2024.
Venue: Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
All accepted papers will be printed in the proceedings published by
Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Please check the website for more information:
http://www.evostar.org/2024/
—
Professor Stephen L. Smith
Deputy Head of School (Research)
School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
U.K.
Giving up the Ghost, and Getting Into the Goo: Embracing the Brain as an Organ of the Body (Not the Mind), and Taking Sociality Seriously
11:30 – 12:15 N.N.
12:15 – 13:00 PhD students speed presentations (I)
Empirical projects in the RTG ‘Situated Cognition’
14:30 – 15:15 Felix Schreiber
Episodically Anticipated Emotions and Their Impact on Proactive Behavior and Mental Health Across Development
15:15 – 16:00 Samuel H. Cosper
Word Learning and the Brain: How We Label the World Around Us
16:00 – 17:15 Poster session with coffee break
17:15 – 18:25 Keynote Heidi Maibom
Why Perspectives Matter
Friday, 6th of October
09:00 – 10:10 Keynote N.N.
10:10 – 10:55 Julian Packheiser
The Behavioral Benefits and Neural Correlates of Affective Touch – A Perspective From Field, Lab and Meta Research
11:15 – 12:00 PhD students speed presentations (II)
Theoretical projects in the RTG ‘Situated Cognition’
13:30 – 14:15 Beate Krickel
How to Carve up the Mind? Horizontally, Vertically, or Both?
14:15 – 15:00 Sabrina Coninx
The Biopsychosocial Model of Chronic Illness: Prospects and Challenges
15:20 – 16:40 Panel discussion on Women in Science and Philosophy
Imke von Maur (Panelists: Beate Krickel, Louise Barrett, Martina Havenith-Newen)
16:50 – 18:00 Keynote Joel Krueger
Affordances, Affect, and Spatial Agency
Call for poster presentation: We invite abstracts for poster presentations on topics in situated cognition. Poster format, if accepted: DIN A0, vertical orientation, high DPI.
The ***24th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP) *** is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working on applications and theory of evolutionary computation methods and other metaheuristics for solving difficult combinatorial optimisation problems appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains.
Successfully solved problems include, but are not limited to, multi-objective, uncertain, dynamic and stochastic problems in the context of scheduling, timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution, vehicle routing, stringology, graphs, satisfiability, energy optimisation, cutting, packing, planning and search-based software engineering.
The EvoCOP 2024 conference will be held together with EuroGP (the 27th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 13th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (the 27th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation), in a joint event collectively known as EvoStar (Evo*).
Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Previous proceedings can be found in the EvoCOP Conference Proceedings in SpringerLink.
Conference Chairs
Thomas Stützle
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
stuetzle(at)ulb.ac.be
Markus Wagner
Monash University, Australia
markus.wagner(at)monash.edu
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2023
Conference: 3 to 5 April 2023.
Venue: Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
Call for papers for the 13th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) · Please
distribute · Apologies for cross-posting
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The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music,
Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will take place on 3-5 April 2024, as
part of the evo* event.
EvoMUSART is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together
researchers who are working on the application of Artificial Neural
Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Cellular Automata,
Alife, and other Artificial Intelligence techniques in creative and
artistic fields
such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital Games, Poetry, or
Design. This conference gives researchers in the field the opportunity to
promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.
Submissions must be at most 16 pages long, in Springer LNCS format. Each
submission must be anonymized for a double-blind review process.
Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and
included in the EvoMUSART proceedings published by Springer Nature in a
dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Indicative topics include but are not limited to:
* Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry,
text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.;
Lecture Series “Explainable AI and Society”
The 4th installment of the lecture series “Explainable AI and Society” will take place during the winter semester 2023/2024, online and in person at TU Dortmund.
Modern AI can be used to drive cars, to decide on loans, or to detect cancer. Yet, the inner workings of many AI systems remain hidden – even to experts. Given the crucial role that AI systems play in modern society, this seems unacceptable. But how can we make complex, self-learning systems explainable? What kinds of explanations are we looking for when demanding that AI must be explainable? And which societal, ethical and legal desiderata can actually be satisfied via explainability?
The interdisciplinary, hybrid lecture series presents the latest research on these and related topics and invites exchange with researchers, students, and the interested public.
Lecture Dates
* 19.10.23, 6.15 p.m. (CEST): Claus Beisbart, University of Bern (philosophy):
“Explained – Agreed. On the Consequences of Informed Consent on Explainability”
* 14.12.23, 6.15 p.m. (CET): Anne Lauber-Rönsberg, TU Dresden (law):
“A Legal Perspective on Explainable AI: Why, How Much and For Whom?”
* 18.01.24, 6.15 p.m. (CET): Gudela Grote, ETH Zurich (psychology):
“Organizing AI: How to Shape Accountable AI Development and Use”
Registration
To register, send an e-mail with the title “Registration” to sara.mann@tu-dortmund.de<mailto:sara.mann@tu-dortmund.de>. Include which lecture(s) you would like to attend and whether you will attend online or in person.
For further information visit www.eis.science/lectures
The lecture series is organized by the research project “Explainable Intelligent Systems<https://explainable-intelligent.systems/>”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
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Reminder: Upcoming Sixth Bochum Early Career Researchers Workshop in
Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Date: July 24, 2023 – July 26, 2023
Location: Veranstaltungszentrum (VZ), Saal 1, Ruhr University Bochum
(RUB), Germany,
and online via Zoom
Organization: Alexander Hölken & Caroline Stankozi (RUB)
Keynote speakers: Miguel Segundo Ortín (Murcia, ES), Arantza Barrios
(London, UK), Demian Battaglia (Strasbourg, FR)
This year’s ECR Workshop focuses on the role of the brain in learning.
By bringing together (early career) researchers from different
disciplines with similar research interests, we want to facilitate a
fruitful exchange on this topic. The aim of this workshop is to
elucidate how the process of learning differs – or is the same – in
systems that possess brains and those that don’t.
Recent advances in the fields of artificial intelligence, animal and
even plant behavior have shown that being able to learn is not a
property unique to brains. Therefore, an important task for young
researchers in cognitive science will be to develop and apply a concept
of learning that captures learning processes in both artificial and
natural systems. While learning may be considered as multiply
realizable, it is also evident that the brain realizes learning in a
different way than artificial or simple biological systems do. In this
year’s ECR Workshop, we would like to discuss recent approaches to
answering questions such as:
How do brained and non-brained systems differ in realizing learning?
What organismal and environmental conditions suffice for learning?
Are there different kinds of learning, and if so, are some of them
unique to brains?
How should new insights into the mechanisms of learning in
non-brained systems change the way we think about learning in the brain?
Which spatiotemporal scales does learning occur on? Is it a process
confined to the brain, or does it include states and processes of the
organism and the environment as well?
More information and the schedule can be found here:
While understanding has recently become the object of intense debate among
philosophers, it remains an open question how to make sense of different
forms of understanding. These include scientific understanding (e.g.
understanding scientific theories, phenomena, models, etc.), moral
understanding (e.g. understanding other people, understanding political
subjects, etc.), aesthetic understanding (e.g. understanding an artwork,
like a novel or painting, and how these enable us to understand the world),
or religious understanding (e.g. understanding theology, understanding and
our spiritual life). The workshop’s goal is to debate about the nature of
understanding and explore the relations between different forms of
understanding.
Venue
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Mercator Raum, GAFO 04/187
Universitätstr. 150
Bochum, Deutschland
Registration
This is a hybrid event. Participation online or in person is free, but
please register first by sending an e-mail with your name, e-mail address,
and preference (online or in-presence participation) to:
AISoLA5, Conference Track Normative Perspectives on and Societal Implications of AI Systems<https://aisola.org/tracks/b1/>, Crete, Greece, Oct. 23-28, 2023.
Note the corrected submission link and conference fees!
Track Theme
As AI systems continue to permeate various sectors and aspects of our lives, ensuring their trustworthy and responsible design and use becomes critical. This conference track aims to bring together interdisciplinary research from philosophy, law, psychology, economics, and other relevant fields to explore the normative perspectives on and societal implications of developing and employing AI systems. It will examine the challenges of setting domain-dependent minimal requirements for verification, explanation, and assessment of ML systems with the aim of ensuring trustworthy and responsible use of real-world applications.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Legal and Regulatory Challenges
* Ethical and Psychological Challenges
* Economic and Societal Challenges
* Responsibility and Accountability
* Ownership and Attribution in AI-Generated Content
* Bias, Discrimination, and Algorithmic Fairness
* Perspicuity in AI Systems
* Holistic Assessment of AI Models
The track is part of the conference AISoLa5<https://aisola.org/>, which provides an open forum for discussions about recent progress in machine learning and its implications. AISoLA invites researchers with different backgrounds like computer science, philosophy, psychology, law, economics, and social studies to participate in an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and to establish new collaborations.
Conference date: Oct. 23-28, 2023.
Conference venue: ALDEMAR KNOSSOS ROYAL<https://www.aldemarknossosroyal.gr>, Crete, Greece. Nightly rates for hotel rooms: 108 € single room all inclusive; 168 € double room all inclusive.
The conference fee: 580 € for professors and scientific employees; 480 € for students..
The conference fee is in addition to the costs for the hotel and the travel to Crete. We will be able to waive the conference fee for three speakers. If you would like to make use of this option, please send a brief motivation (max 250 words) to: eva.schmidt@tu-dortmund.de<mailto:eva.schmidt@tu-dortmund.de>, in addition to submitting your abstract via the link. Please use the subject line: AISoLa5 Scholarship.
Submitting an Abstract
Deadline for submissions of abstracts: July 31, 2023
Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words. Talks will be ca. 45 min long + 45 discussion.
Kevin Baum (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), Thorsten Helfer (Saarland University), Markus Langer (Philipps-University of Marburg), Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund), Andreas Sesing-Wagenpfeil (Saarland University), Timo Speith (University of Bayreuth).
For questions, please contact eva.schmidt@tu-dortmund.de<mailto:eva.schmidt@tu-dortmund.de>.
Track co-organized by the Lamarr Institute<https://lamarr-institute.org/> and EIS<http://eis.science>.
—
JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt
TU Dortmund
Institut für Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft
Emil-Figge-Straße 50
44227 Dortmund
https://ipp.ht.tu-dortmund.de/institut/personen/professorinnen-und-professoren/prof-dr-eva-schmidt/
This year our summer school “Neural Dynamics for Embodied Cognition” will take place from the 21st to the 26th of August, 2023 at the Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Gregor Schöner.
Neuronal dynamics provide a powerful theoretical language for the design and modeling of embodied and situated cognitive systems. This school provides a hands-on and practical introduction to neuronal dynamics ideas and enables participants to become productive within this framework. The school is aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students, postdocs and faculty members in embodied cognition, cognitive science, and robotics.
Topics addressed include neural dynamics, attractor dynamics and instabilities, dynamic field theory, neuronal representations, artificial perception, simple forms of cognition including detection and selection decisions, memory formation, learning, and grounding relational concepts.
The school combines tutorial lectures with hands-on project work.
Participants will develop their own modeling project, which may connect to their ongoing doctoral or postdoctoral research.
To apply for the summer school, please visit our webpage:
