[WTI-trainee] RSVP for Yale Workshop on: Toward AI with Human-Level Efficiency – April 29-30

[Guerrero-Medina, Giovanna]

Sent on behalf of Dr. Ilker Yildirim

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Dear All:


We are excited to announce the Yale AI Workshop on: Toward AI with Human-Level Efficiency, which will be held at the end of this month, April 29-30, at 100 College Street Workshop area (11th floor). The workshop, hosted by Ilker Yildirim, is part of the Philosophical and Computational Foundations of Cognition (PCC) initiative and is sponsored by the Yale AI Initiative and the Wu Tsai Institute.


Despite much progress in machine learning and AI, uncovering the computational architecture of human cognition and replicating it in machines remains a grand scientific and engineering challenge of our time. A central component of this challenge is the “efficiency gap” — the often orders-of-magnitude difference between the efficiency of human intelligence and that of mainstream AI systems in what humans learn, perceive, plan, and reason, given the same amount of data, sensing capability, and computing energy.



This workshop brings together world experts in the computational modeling of human cognition, along with AI/ML and robotics researchers whose work connects to cognitive science, to share their research and explore the implications of their research for closing this efficiency gap. We provide a draft schedule below.


Please RSVP by April 22nd. (Attendees with an RSVP will be provided a boxed lunch each day, capped at the first 100 RSVPs.) Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesrA_xXcR33xwkqPA4HzYVYhGDyiLKXxebz2PSwjUi3_6XtQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor


We hope you can join us! Direct any questions to Ilker Yildirim (ilker.yildirim at yale.edu<mailto:ilker.yildirim at yale.edu>).


Organizing committee

Ilker, Tyler, Julian, Tom, Laurie, Bob, Alex, Andre


Draft schedule:

(Day 1, April 29th)

Topic

Speaker

9:00-9:10

Intro

Ilker Yildirim (Yale)

9:10-9:50

Learning - Talk 1

Tom Griffiths (Princeton)

9:55-10:35

Learning - Talk 2

Todd Gureckis (NYU)

10:35-10:55

Coffee break

10:55-11:35

Learning - Talk 3

Leslie Kaelbling (MIT)

11:40-12:20

Learning - Talk 4

Vikash Mansinghka (MIT)

12:20-1:15

Lunch

1:15-1:45

Learning - Discussion

1:45-2:25

Planning/reasoning - Talk 1

Winrich Freiwald (Rockefeller)

2:30-3:10

Planning/reasoning - Talk 2

Tyler Brooke-Wilson (Yale)

3:10-3:30

Coffee break

3:30-4:10

Planning/reasoning - Talk 3

L.A. Paul (Yale), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT)

4:15-4:55

Planning/reasoning - Talk 4

Alex Lew (Yale)

4:55-5:30

Planning/reasoning - Discussion


(Day 2, April 30th)

Topic

Speaker

9:00-9:40

Perception - Talk 1

Ilker Yildirim (Yale)

9:45-10:25

Perception - Talk 2

Nancy Kanwisher (MIT)

10:25-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-11:25

Perception - Talk 3

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia)

11:30-12:10

Perception - Talk 4

Leyla Isik (JHU)

12:10-1:15

Lunch

1:40-2:10

Perception - Discussion

2:10-4:00

General panel/closing


 Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD [A button for name playback in email signature] <https://www.name-coach.com/giovanna-guerrero-medina>

She/Her/Ella

Asst. Director for Professional Development & Community

Wu Tsai Institute<http://wti.yale.edu/>

Yale University

giovanna.guerrero-medina at yale.edu<mailto:giovanna.guerrero-medina at yale.edu>

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