[Eeglablist] EiNS Seminar, Wed 30 April, 9am (GMT-3) (9:00 pm JST Japan), Dr. Tom Froese on “How do we make meaning matter in Artificial Intelligence?”

[Jose A. Fernandez]

Dear All,

You are cordially invited to the first 2025 EiNS seminar in Neuroscience
and Artificial Intelligence --
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*“How do we make meaning matter in Artificial Intelligence?” by **Tom
Froese *
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) -–
Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (Japan)

*Date:* Wed 30 April - 9am (GMT-3) (9:00 pm JST Japan)

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*Language of the talk:* Spanish

*Abstract:* How do we ensure that meaning-bearing aspects of agency make a
measurable difference in behavior generation? We will consider a novel test
for candidate theories, the “participation criterion”: End-directedness of
behavior entails that, in principle, it is distinguishable by measurement
from one without end-directedness. But how can this criterion ever be
satisfied by artificial agents? We will evaluate the possibility that
end-directedness will show up as a local increase in unpredictability of
system dynamics, which has the global effect of stochastically nudging the
system toward aligning with the goal state.

*BIO: *Dr. Tom Froese is an Associate Professor at the Okinawa Institute of
Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan, where he leads
the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (ECSU). Before 2019, he was a Professor
at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he led the 4E
Cognition Group. Froese completed his PhD in Cognitive Science at the
University of Sussex in the UK in 2010 and his MSc in Computer Science and
Cybernetics at the University of Reading in 2004. His research spans
theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to life, mind, and
sociality.

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Regards,

Jose A. Fernandez-Leon Fellenz
Adjunct Professor UNCPBA - Researcher CONICET
CIFICEN (UNCPBA-CICPBA-CONICET) & INTIA (UNCPBA-CICPBA)
Dept. of Computer Science and Systems -  Exactas-UNCPBA
EMail: jafernandez at intia.exa.unicen.edu.ar
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