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| - | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-25</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>AI-powered tools for real-time transcription and translation in action: A self-hosted open-source framework for digital spaces.</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien/veranstaltungen/tagungen/medien-wissen-bildung-2025/">Medien - Wissen - Bildung 2025: Streifzüge an den Nahtstellen von Medien, Bildung und Philosophie</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited keynote <i>Hands-on Approaches to Software, Robotics, and AI: Exploring Experiments and Science in Action</i> at <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/ECER-2025/">European Conference on Educational Robotics (ECER 2025)</a>, HTL Anichstrasse.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>What is AI really?</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2025/04/03/ai-in-law-and-practice-regional-perspectives-on-european-rules">Cross-Border | + | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2025-09-18</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited keynote <i>Where are all the intelligent robots? A quest for efficiency in reinforcement learning</i> at <a href="https://sarl-plus.github.io/RL-Bootcamp2025/">Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp 2025</a>, Salzburg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">As artificial intelligence reshapes our digital world at a breathtaking pace, |
| + | a curious question arises: Where are all the real-world, intelligent robots? | ||
| + | While we have mastered the generation of text, images, and video by leveraging vast web-scale datasets, | ||
| + | robotics still faces a fundamental data bottleneck. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a compelling solution, | ||
| + | enabling agents to learn autonomously by collecting their own experience. | ||
| + | However, the path to autonomy is often blocked by the staggering inefficiency of current RL algorithms, | ||
| + | which can require millions of trials to master simple tasks. This talk embarks on a quest to tackle this | ||
| + | efficiency problem head-on. I will argue that a crucial step toward unlocking the potential of | ||
| + | robot learning lies in a two-pronged approach: first, by developing statistically efficient | ||
| + | algorithms that can reuse data by leveraging sound off-policy techniques, and second, | ||
| + | by designing better action representations for physical, real-world agents. | ||
| + | By making our algorithms more efficient and refining their core hypotheses, | ||
| + | we can accelerate the journey toward real embodied artificial intelligence.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Making robots learn to perceive and act with | ||
| + | understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The | ||
| + | 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">The flexibility and robustness of current robots is | ||
| + | limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For | ||
| + | this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments. | ||
| + | Machine learning can circumvent modeling problems but introduces | ||
| + | new problems of generalizing from examples. How can robots acquire | ||
| + | understanding (of structure, function, causality, etc.) that | ||
| + | allows them to generalize from sparse experience? Motivated by | ||
| + | shortcomings of current machine-learning methods, I will argue | ||
| + | that "understanding" is a meaningful notion in AI that reaches | ||
| + | beyond prediction and control. I will discuss examples of our | ||
| + | recent work on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation | ||
| + | of learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of | ||
| + | symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning | ||
| + | from sensorimotor experience. Our long-term objective is to | ||
| + | improve abstraction, generalization, robustness, and ultimately | ||
| + | explainability of robot perception and action.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-11</td><td>Justus Piater and Alejandro Agostini give an invited talk <i>Learning Symbols and Abstractions in Robot Planning</i> at <a href="https://www.unibz.it/en/events/abstraction-language-science-engineering">Abstraction: | ||
| + | Language - Science - Engineering</a>, Bolzano. (International Workshop)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-25</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>AI-powered tools for real-time transcription and translation in action: A self-hosted open-source framework for digital spaces.</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien/veranstaltungen/tagungen/medien-wissen-bildung-2025/">Medien - Wissen - Bildung 2025: Streifzüge an den Nahtstellen von Medien, Bildung und Philosophie</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited keynote <i>Hands-on Approaches to Software, Robotics, and AI: Exploring Experiments and Science in Action</i> at <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/ECER-2025/">European Conference on Educational Robotics (ECER 2025)</a>, HTL Anichstrasse.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>What is AI really?</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2025/04/03/ai-in-law-and-practice-regional-perspectives-on-european-rules">Cross-Border | ||
| Seminar: AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European | Seminar: AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European | ||
| - | Rules</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-03-06</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von KI</i> at Lieber gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du | + | Rules</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-03-06</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von KI</i> at <a href="https://www.tirol.gv.at/fileadmin/themen/bildung/medienzentrum/downloads/07_Magazin_Co/2025_01.pdf">Lieber |
| - | uns bei der Gleichstellung?!, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof Vill. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem4', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz" bezeichnet derzeit Systeme, die | + | gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du uns bei der |
| + | Gleichstellung?!</a>, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof Vill. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz" bezeichnet derzeit Systeme, die | ||
| auf maschinellem Lernen (ML) basieren. Dieser Workshop führt in | auf maschinellem Lernen (ML) basieren. Dieser Workshop führt in | ||
| die Grundlagen des ML ein, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf neuronale | die Grundlagen des ML ein, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf neuronale | ||
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| und Grenzen von ML und warum es mit derzeitigen Mitteln extrem | und Grenzen von ML und warum es mit derzeitigen Mitteln extrem | ||
| schwierig ist, Diskriminierung in KI-Systemen zu | schwierig ist, Diskriminierung in KI-Systemen zu | ||
| - | verhindern.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Programmieren eines autonomen Roboters anhand einer selbstentwickelten KI</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-31</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>High-Level AI For Autonomous Robots</i> at <a href="https://elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-vismac/">ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC | + | verhindern.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Programmieren eines autonomen Roboters anhand einer selbstentwickelten KI</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML> |
| - | Winter School 2025</a>, Brunico, Italy. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">What barriers will have to be overcome to raise the | + | |
| - | flexibility and robustness of autonomous robots to the next level? | + | |
| - | I argue that current AI methods are unlikely to get there, no | + | |
| - | matter how far we scale them up. Robots need to be able to | + | |
| - | "understand" their environment in ways that reach beyond | + | |
| - | prediction and control. I will discuss examples of work (ours and | + | |
| - | others') on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation of | + | |
| - | learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of | + | |
| - | symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning | + | |
| - | from sensorimotor experience.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-23</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Generative Künstliche Intelligenz: Funktion, Fähigkeiten | + | |
| - | und Fallen</i> at <a href="https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_lv.details?sem_id_in=24W&lvnr_id_in=720453">VO | + | |
| - | 720453 Spezielle Themen der Persönlichkeits- und Differentiellen | + | |
| - | Psychologie</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (Gastvorlesung)</td></tr></table></HTML> | + | |
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