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- | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2022-02-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Learning as a Creative Process in Humans and | + | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-26</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://airov.at/">AIRoV – The First Austrian |
- | Machines</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/online-workshop-on-agency-life-and-creativity/">Workshop | + | Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 26.–27.3.2024</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>The IMAGINE Project: Robot Intuition and Understanding for |
- | on “Agency, Life, and Creativity”</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">Humans constantly engage in creative activity such as | + | Disassembly</i> at <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for |
- | finding explanations, improving technology, or solving novel | + | Recycling of Electronic Devices</a>, Rimini, Italy. (Workshop at the European Robotics Forum)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for |
- | problems in everyday life. Even imitating other humans, e.g. while | + | Recycling of Electronic Devices</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-01-16</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited talk <i>Beyond Monte Carlo Off-Policy Policy Gradient</i> at <a href="https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conferences/rl-2024">Mini-Workshop on Reinforcement Learning</a>, University of Mannheim.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-12-01</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.mediengipfel.at/at/archiv/veranstaltungen/2023.php">15. |
- | learning a new skill, is creative in that the imitator has to | + | Europäischer Mediengipfel</a>, Lech/Arlberg. (Wissenschaftsforum zum Thema „Künstliche Intelligenz – Fluch oder Segen für Politik, Medien, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft?)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Demystifying ChatGPT</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/betriebswirtschaft/dlc/">UIBK |
- | infer the conceptual structure underlying the observed | + | Digital Leadership Club</a>, Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-13</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>ChatGPT: Wie es (nicht) funktioniert</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/disc/events/discussion-piater-rath/">Wie |
- | manifestation and to regenerate the latter from the former. In | + | „denkt“ ChatGPT? Begegnungen mit einer Künstlichen |
- | contrast, current AI-enabled agents are unable to generate and | + | Intelligenz</a>, Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck. (Öffentliche Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe DiSCussion des Digital Science Centers, organisiert gemeinsam mit dem Vizerektorat für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-11</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Wie kann die Medizin von der Künstlichen Intelligenz |
- | draw upon such conceptual structures. Their learning is mostly | + | profitieren?</i> at <a href="https://www.dfpkalender.at/public-dfpkalender/viewEvent.jsf?id=784672">Winterfortbildung der Universitätsklinik Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe Innsbruck</a>, Wattens.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-10-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Ramping Up Robot Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://summer2023.reconcycle.eu/">ReconCycle Summer |
- | driven by statistics, and any ability to produce novelty is | + | School 2023</a>, Cala Ratjada, Mallorca, Spain.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-09-06</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>High-Level AI For Service Robotics</i> at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gmarobotics_gmar-summer-school-fhtw-activity-7076785981302939648-mdTV/">GMAR Robotics Summer School 2023</a>, FH Technikum Wien.</td></tr></table></HTML> |
- | largely limited to trial and error. I will try to characterize | + | |
- | this fundamental difference between learning in human and | + | |
- | artificial agents, and will discuss possible technological | + | |
- | approaches that might help close this gap.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elsa-innsbruck_letzte-woche-fand-zum-elsa-day-am-24112021-activity-6871397038093869057-16-7">Privacy | + | |
- | in the Digital Age</a>, online. (Organized by ELSA Innsbruck)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-10-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Robotik und KI in der Medizin – nur | + | |
- | Bedarfserweckung?</i> at <a href="https://medical-update-hall.com/veranstaltungen/">Medical | + | |
- | Update Hall 2021 – Fit für das neue Jahrzehnt</a>, UMIT, Hall in Tirol.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-08-26</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Digital Science at the University of Innsbruck</i> at Aurora Research Conference Digital Society & Global Citizenship, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem3', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem3Abstract" style="display:none">Growing data processing capacities and progress in | + | |
- | analytical methods and artificial intelligence are motivating | + | |
- | entire branches of science to raise new questions and to develop | + | |
- | new approaches. This digital transformation requires progressive, | + | |
- | interdisciplinary synergies between the computational sciences and | + | |
- | all other scientific disciplines. The Digital Science Center | + | |
- | (DiSC) at the University of Innsbruck meets this challenge by | + | |
- | integrating and promoting digitalisation of scientific research. | + | |
- | In this talk I will present some examples of interdisciplinary | + | |
- | research by DiSC staff researchers who are experts in specific | + | |
- | aspects of digital science.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-08-24</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a lecture <i>Picking and Placing</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/gmar-robotics-school-2021.html">2021 GMAR Summer School</a>, Villa Blanka, Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-07-01</td><td>Justus Piater and Matteo Saveriano give an invited talk <i>Making Robots Learn to Perceive and Act with Understanding</i> at <a href="https://webservices.scientificnet.org/rest/entries/api/v1/blobs/200894">Workshop | + | |
- | and Open Lab on Field Robotics - Interdisciplinary aspects of | + | |
- | robotics and its applications in outdoor scenarios</a>, NOI Techpark, Bolzano, Italy.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-05-26</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Intelligente und interaktive Systeme</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">GMAR Robotics Science | + | |
- | Talks</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-03-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Machine Learning, Perception, And Abstract Concepts</i> at Invited lecture at Ontario Tech U, Canada, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">With every spectacular achievement of a machine learning | + | |
- | system, the long-elusive AI breakthrough is popularly proclaimed | + | |
- | to be just around the corner. Most recent successes have been due | + | |
- | in large part to massive data and computation, in particular using | + | |
- | deep artificial neural networks. But can artificial cognition | + | |
- | really be achieved just by further scaling up existing | + | |
- | machine-learning techniques? I discuss examples of simple, | + | |
- | perceptual problems that are easily solved by humans but very | + | |
- | difficult for today's machine learning methods. These problems | + | |
- | reflect how humans conceptualize their world. Their mastery is | + | |
- | thus likely to be an essential prerequisite for autonomous robots | + | |
- | to attain higher levels of cognitive abilities. To get there, a | + | |
- | few core issues can be identified that should drive research in | + | |
- | cognitive robotics.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-01-28</td><td>Matteo Saveriano gives an invited talk <i>Making robots to learn from human observation?</i> at <a href="https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/austrian-embassy-ottawa/news/events/detail/article/showcasing-young-austrian-scholars-and-scientists-an-original-seven-part-virtual-lectures-ser/">Showcasing Young Austrian Scholars and Scientists, Austrian cultural forum, Ottawa</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-01-14</td><td>Matteo Saveriano gives an invited talk <i>Hierarchical action decomposition and motion learning for the execution of manipulation tasks</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">Hello Tyrol calling! Robotics Talk online, GMAR, Innsbruck</a>, online.</td></tr></table></HTML> | + | |
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