[iva] Prof. Ron Sun's seminar, Friday 11th, 08:15 CET and 12:15 CET

[loisv at cs.umu.se]

Dear colleagues,

It is our greatest pleasure to host a presentation of Prof. Ron Sun on 
Friday the 11th, live at 08:15 CET and replayed at 12:15 CET on behalf 
of TAIGA, Umeå's Center for Transdisciplinary AI on the topic of 
"Rationality and Intelligence in Humans and Machine".

Please feel the utmost invited to join.

https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-ron-sun_12059516/
https://umu.zoom.us/j/61519075636

Abstract:
Drawing upon philosophical and other theoretical analysis of 
rationality, intelligence, and AI models, this talk will analyze a 
specific line of computational work --- the development of a 
neural-symbolic computational cognitive architecture. It discusses 
issues that concern different types of rationality, different 
conceptions of intelligence, essence of human activities, roles of 
motivation, and so on, all within the context of the cognitive 
architecture. Based on the discussion, it argues that recent 
computational models are more advanced than often assumed, and they are 
capable of addressing many objections to the AI of yesteryear.

Resume:
Ron Sun is a cognitive scientist investigating the fundamental nature of 
the human mind, using various methodologies of cognitive science, and in 
particular computational modeling, as means of forging mechanistic, 
process-based theories of the mind (especially comprehensive 
computational theories such as cognitive architectures). He has played a 
leading role early on in developing hybrid neural-symbolic 
(neurosymbolic) systems for cognitive modeling, and he is currently 
known for his work on the Clarion cognitive architecture. He has 
published more than 150 technical papers in journals such as 
Psychological Review, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and 
Neural Networks, as well as 12 books by MIT Press, Cambridge University 
Press, Oxford University Press, and so on. His recent books include: 
Anatomy of the Mind (Oxford University Press), Grounding Social Sciences 
in Cognitive Sciences (MIT Press), and Cambridge Handbook of 
Computational Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge University Press).

Looking forward to meeting you there!
Best regards,
Loïs Vanhée

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Loïs Vanhée, Ph.D., Docent, Recognized teacher

Associate professor
Co-director of the Centre for Transdisciplinary AI
Coordinator of the Social Artificial Intelligence Focus Area
and of the Special Interest Group on Models of Human Decision

Department of Computing Science
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
Web: https://www.umu.se/en/staff/lois-vanhee/