Detailed information about the Seminar:
Topic: Hybrid Minds: Radically Reimagining the Future of Intelligence
Speaker: Dr. Olaf Witkowski
Time: 10:00 AM, Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Location: Room E1.1, Building E, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM
Participants: Lecturers and students
Registration form link: https://shorturl.at/arBUV
Abstract about the seminar
Intelligence isn’t just about acing exams, excelling at chess, or memorizing many books. It’s broader and may evolve in many different ways. In this talk, we will explore intelligence in a larger perspective, not just in humans but more generally in biology, AI, and other, possibly hybrid forms of life.
We will discuss how two agents living in different substrates, such as humans, cells, or digital agents, may interact in a meaningful way. This perspective suggests thinking of diverse agents, including technological ones, not merely as tools for humans to use and offload computation to, but as true partners together with whom humans can increase their perception and cognition. This perspective invites a future where diverse minds unify to expand their understanding of reality.
Bio of Dr. Olaf Witkowski
Olaf Witkowski is a leading expert in empathic AI and Artificial Life based in Kyoto, Japan.
He is the Founding Director of Cross Labs, a research institute in Japan, focusing on the study of intelligence in biological and synthetic systems.
He is the President of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Artificial Life, Executive Officer at leading AI company Cross Compass, and Lecturer at the University of Tokyo.
He has co-founded multiple ventures in science and technology on three continents, including YHouse Inc. (a nonprofit institute on the emergence of consciousness in the universe) and the Center for the Study of Apparent Selves (focusing on the Self in Buddhism and AI).
His research focuses on a mathematical understanding of intelligence in any substrate, which he uses to design hybrid living systems, empathic human-machine interfaces, open-ended paradigms for collective computing, and theories of connected minds.
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