Programme
Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence
St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, UK
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Saturday, 21.09.2013
Registration I – Nissan Lecture Theatre, Foyer
9:00 Introduction
9:00-10:30 Keynote: Stuart J Russell (UC Berkeley)
“Rationality and Intelligence” [PPT View/Download ↓]
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Müller
10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Buttery) & Registration II
11:00-13:30 Sections (5 x 2)
| Session A: Computing (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Bonsignorio | Session B: Cognitive Science (Pavilion Room, Gateway Building) Chair: Votsis | |
| 11:00 11:30 | Marcin Miłkowski | Aaron Sloman |
| Computation and Multiple Realizability | Why is it so hard to make human-like AI mathematicians? | |
| 11:30 12:00 | Tarek Richard Besold and Robert Robere | Mark Bickhard |
| When Thinking Never Comes to a Halt: Tractability, Kernelization and Approximability in AI | The Predictive Brain: A Critique | |
| 12:00 12:30 | Carlos Eduardo Brito and Victor X. Marques | Stefano Franchi |
| Computation in the Enactive Paradigm for Cognitive Science and AI | General homeostasis as a challenge to autonomy | |
| 12:30 13:00 | Blay Whitby | Cem Bozsahin |
| Computers, Semantics, and Arbitrariness | Natural Recursion doesn’t work that way | |
| 13:00 13:30 | David Leslie | Yoshihiro Maruyama |
| The Lures of Imitation and the Limitations of Practice: “Machine Intelligence” and the Ethical Grammar of Computability | AI, Quantum Information, and Semantic Realism: On the Edge between Geometric and Algebraic Intelligence |
13:30-15:00 Poster Session View details & Lunch (Buttery)
Barkati & Rousseaux ∙ Bello ∙ Bianchini ∙ Boltuć ∙ Bonsignorio ∙ Dewhurst ∙ Freed ∙ Gaudl ∙ Hempinstall ∙ Hodges ∙ Laukyte
Novikova, Gaudl, Bryson & Watts ∙ Schroeder ∙ Shieber ∙ Smith ∙ Toivakainen ∙ Toy ∙ Vadnais ∙ Weber ∙ Vosgerau
15:00-16:00 Keynote: Jean-Christophe Baillie (CSO, Aldebaran Robotics, Paris)
“AI: The Point of View of Developmental Robotics” [PDF View/Download ↓]
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Shieber
16:00-17:00 Keynote: Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)
“What Does Watson 2.0 Tell Us About the Philosophy & Theory of AI?” [PDF ↓] [KEY ↓] [MOV ↓]
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Shieber
17:00-17:30 Poster Session View details & Coffee break (Buttery)
Barkati & Rousseaux ∙ Bello ∙ Bianchini ∙ Boltuć ∙ Bonsignorio ∙ Dewhurst ∙ Freed ∙ Gaudl ∙ Hempinstall ∙ Hodges ∙ Laukyte
Novikova, Gaudl, Bryson & Watts ∙ Schroeder ∙ Shieber ∙ Smith ∙ Toivakainen ∙ Toy ∙ Vadnais ∙ Weber ∙ Vosgerau
17:30-19:00 Sections (3 x 2)
| Session A: Information (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Boltuć | Session B: Modelling (Pavilion Room, Gateway Building) Chair: Bickard | |
| 17:30 18:00 | Anderson De Araújo | Richard Evans |
| Semantic information and artificial intelligence | Computer Models of Constitutive Social Practices | |
| 18:00 18:30 | Gordana Dodig Crnkovic | Bruce Toy |
| Information, Computation, Cognition. Agency-based Hierarchies of Levels | Behavior Models, an Architectural Analysis | |
| 18:30 19:00 | Ana-Maria Olteteanu | Remco Heesen |
| From Simple Machines to Eureka in Four Not-So-Easy Steps. Towards Creative Visuospatial Intelligence | Interaction Networks With Imperfect Information |
19:00-20:00 Keynote: Theodore Berger (University of Southern California, L.A.)
“Engineering Memories: A Cognitive Neural Prosthesis for Restoring and Enhancing Memory Function“
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Bishop
20:00-22:00 Conference Dinner, St Antony’s College Hall (pre-bookings online)
Sunday, 22.09.2013
9:00-10:00 Keynote: Murray Shanahan (Imperial College, London)
“Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Frame Problem” [PPT View/Download ↓]
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Scheutz
10:00-11:00 Keynote: Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling, Scotland)
“AI and Extended Cognition” [PDF View/Download ↓]
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Scheutz
11:00-11:30 Coffee break (Buttery)
11:30-13:30 Sections (4 x 2)
| Session A: Morals (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Sandberg | Session B: Embodied Cognition (Pavilion Room, Gateway Building) Chair: Miłkowski | |
| 11:30 12:00 | Matthias Scheutz | Elena Spitzer |
| The need for moral competency in autonomous agent architectures | Tacit Representations and Artificial Intelligence: Hidden Lessons from an Embodied Perspective on Cognition | |
| 12:00 12:30 | Vincent C. Müller (co-author Nick Bostrom) | Carlos Herrera and Ricardo Sanz |
| Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Poll Among Experts | Heideggerian AI and the being of robots | |
| 12:30 13:00 | Marcello Guarini and Jordan Benko | Madeleine Ransom |
| Order Effects, Moral Cognition, and Intelligence | Why Emotions Do Not Solve the Frame Problem | |
| 13:00 13:30 | Miles Brundage | Robin Zebrowski |
| Artificial Intelligence and Responsible Innovation | The Machine Uprising Has Been Delayed (Again): Extended Mind Theories as A(nother) Challenge to Artificial Intelligence |
13:30-14:30 Lunch (Buttery)
14:30-15:30 Keynote: Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford)
“Enveloping the World – How Reality Is Becoming AI-Friendly” [PPTX View/Download ↓]
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Shagrir
15:30-18:00 Sections (5 x 2)
| Session A: Intelligence & Reasoning (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Bryson | Session B: Embodied Cognition (Pavilion Room, Gateway Building) Chair: Nasuto | |
| 15:30 16:00 | Ioannis Votsis | Adam Linson |
| Science with Artificially Intelligent Agents: The Case of Gerrymandered Hypotheses | The Expressive Stance: Intentionality, Expression, and Machine Art | |
| 16:00 16:30 | David Davenport | Alex Tillas and Gottfried Vosgerau |
| Explaining Everything | Perception, Action & the Notion of Grounding | |
| 16:30 17:00 | Sjur Kristoffer Dyrkolbotn and Truls Pedersen | Massimiliano Cappuccio |
| Arguably argumentative: A formal approach to the argumentative theory of reason | The Seminal Speculation of a Precursor: Elements of Embodied Cognition and Situated AI in Alan Turing | |
| 17:00 17:30 | Ron Chrisley | J. Mark Bishop, Slawomir J. Nasuto, Matthew Spencer, Etienne Roesch and Tomas Tanay |
| The appearance of robot consciousness | Playing HeX with Aunt Hilary: games with an anthill | |
| 17:30 18:00 | Tijn Van Der Zant and Bart Verheij | Brian Cantwell Smith |
| Elephants don’t fly; and they know it! | Computation’s Lost Promise |
18:00-18:30 Coffee break (Buttery)
18:30-20:00 Keynote: Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University, Boston)
“If brains are computers, what kind of computers are they?“
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Müller
18:30-20:00 Keynote: Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University, Boston)
“If brains are computers, what kind of computers are they?“
(Nissan Lecture Theatre) Chair: Müller