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 ===== Working With Us =====
-  * We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in [[embodiedAI|Embodied AI and Machine Learning]].
+  * We currently have [[jobs|multiple PhD positions]].
   * Check our thesis topics for [[theses/start|Bachelor and Master students]].
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- * [[https://ellis.eu/|ELLIS]] PhD Program: [[https://ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd-program-call-for-applications-deadline-november-15-2021|Call for Applications]]
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-Group picture taken at our retreat in Obergurgl
+Group picture taken at our 2022 retreat in Obergurgl
 ===== News =====
-<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>2024-04-25</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Generative KI: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen</i> at <a href="https://efuture-day.tsn.at/programm">eFuture-Day
-    Machines</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/online-workshop-on-agency-life-and-creativity/">Workshop
+    Sek. 1</a>, Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">Generative KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT und Midjourney haben
-    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
+    im Laufe des letzten Jahres begonnen, unsere Welt zu verändern.
-    finding explanations, improving technology, or solving novel
+    Wie können wir sie produktiv nutzen? Wie können wir mit den
-    problems in everyday life. Even imitating other humans, e.g. while
+    Herausforderungen umgehen, die durch sie entstehen? Ich werde
-    learning a new skill, is creative in that the imitator has to
+    diese Fragen von der technischen Seite her angehen und einen
-    infer the conceptual structure underlying the observed
+    Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie diese Systeme funktionieren. Daraus
-    manifestation and to regenerate the latter from the former. In
+    ergeben sich ein realistisches Verständnis für ihre Möglichkeiten
-    contrast, current AI-enabled agents are unable to generate and
+    und Grenzen sowie einige grundlegende Empfehlungen für den Umgang
-    draw upon such conceptual structures. Their learning is mostly
+    mit ihnen im Schulbetrieb.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-04-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Generative KI: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen</i> at <a href="https://efuture-day-sek2.tsn.at/programm">eFuture-Day
-    driven by statistics, and any ability to produce novelty is
+    Sek. 2</a>, Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem2', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem2Abstract" style="display:none">Generative KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT und Midjourney haben
-    largely limited to trial and error. I will try to characterize
+    im Laufe des letzten Jahres begonnen, unsere Welt zu verändern.
-    this fundamental difference between learning in human and
+    Wie können wir sie produktiv nutzen? Wie können wir mit den
-    artificial agents, and will discuss possible technological
+    Herausforderungen umgehen, die durch sie entstehen? Ich werde
-    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
+    diese Fragen von der technischen Seite her angehen und einen
-    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
+    Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie diese Systeme funktionieren. Daraus
-    Bedarfserweckung?</i> at <a href="https://medical-update-hall.com/veranstaltungen/">Medical
+    ergeben sich ein realistisches Verständnis für ihre Möglichkeiten
-    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 &amp; 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
+    und Grenzen sowie einige grundlegende Empfehlungen für den Umgang
-    analytical methods and artificial intelligence are motivating
+    mit ihnen im Schulbetrieb.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-04-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Möglichkeiten der KI bei klangrelevanten Arbeitsschritten
-    entire branches of science to raise new questions and to develop
+    im Fertigungsprozess</i> at Digitalwissenschaftlicher Bildungsnachmittag, Musikinstrumentenbauschule Mittenwald.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-26</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://airov.at/">AIRoV – The First Austrian
-    new approaches. This digital transformation requires progressive,
+    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
-    interdisciplinary synergies between the computational sciences and
+    Disassembly</i> at <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for
-    all other scientific disciplines.  The Digital Science Center
+    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
-    (DiSC) at the University of Innsbruck meets this challenge by
+    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.
-    integrating and promoting digitalisation of scientific research.
+    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
-    In this talk I will present some examples of interdisciplinary
+    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
-    research by DiSC staff researchers who are experts in specific
+    „denkt“ ChatGPT? Begegnungen mit einer Künstlichen
-    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
+    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></table></HTML>
-    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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