Programme
Nov. 4 & 5, 2017 – University of Leeds, Weetwood Hall, Otley Road, Leeds, LS16 5PS, UK.
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Main room and room “A” is Lawnswood Suite, room “B” is Bramley Room.
Posters – presented during 4 coffee breaks:
Paulius Astromskis (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Selmer Bringsjord and Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu (RPI, New York)
Christopher Burr, Nello Cristianini and James Ladyman (Bristol)
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic (MDH & Gothenburg)
Tom Everitt, Victoria Krakovna, Laurent Orseau, Marcus Hutter and Shane Legg (ANU, Canberra)
Sam Freed (Sussex)
Arzu Gokmen (Bogazici, Istanbul)
Jodi Guazzini (Trento, Italy)
Mahi Hardalupas (Pittsburgh)
Soheil Human, Golnaz Bidabadi and Vadim Savenkov (Vienna)
Soheil Human, Markus Peschl, Golnaz Bidabadi and Vadim Savenkov (Vienna)
Thomas Kane (Edinburgh)
Yoshihiro Maruyama (Oxford)
Dagmar Monett and Colin Lewis (Berlin)
Caterina Moruzzi (Nottingham)
Aziz F. Zambak and Erdem Unal (METU, Ankara)
Carlos Zednik (Magdeburg)
| DAY 0 (Friday 03.11.2017) | Pre-Conference talk (open) | ||||
| 17:00 | Keynote Metzinger | Thomas Metzinger, University of Mainz | “Virtual Reality, Virtual Embodiment and Artificial Intelligence: New Questions for Policy and Applied Ethics” | ||
| 17:30 | Location: Interdisciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre 17, Blenheim Terrace LS2 9JT Leeds (for this talk only!) | ||||
| 18:00 | |||||
| DAY 1 (Saturday 04.11.2017) | Location: Lawnswood Suite, Weetwood Hall | Location: Bramley Room, Weetwood Hall | |||
| 09:00 | Registration | ||||
| 09:30 | Registration | ||||
| 10:00 | Keynote Sprevak | Mark Sprevak, University of Edinburgh | “Are brains really probabilistic inference machines?” | ||
| 10:30 | |||||
| 11:00 | Coffee & Posters | ||||
| A | Concepts (Chair: Chrisley) | B | Challenges (Chair: Schweizer) | ||
| 11:30 | Papers A1/B1 | A1 | Aaron Sloman (Birmingham) Huge but unnoticed gaps between current AI and natural intelligence | B1 | Anna Strasser (Berlin) Social cognition and artificial agents |
| 12:00 | Papers A2/B2 | A2 | Hajo Greif (TU Munich) Machine Models and Adaptive Functions in Turing and Ashby | B2 | Bryony Pierce (Bristol) How are robots’ reasons for action grounded? |
| 12:30 | Papers A3/B3 | A3 | Hyungrae Noh (U Iowa) A Lesson from Teleosemantics for Cognitive Sciences: Why are receptors of biological systems affordance driven devices? | B3 | Chuanfei Chin (NU Singapore) Artificial consciousness: new philosophical challenges |
| 13:00 | Papers A4/B4 | A4 | Ioannis Votsis (London, NCH/LSE) Computation: A Tale of Two Notions | B4 | David Longinotti (U Maryland) Agency, qualia and life |
| 13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:30 | Keynote Orallo | José Hernández-Orallo, University of Valencia/LCFI Cambridge | “The Mythical Human-Level Machine Intelligence: From Populations to Principles in Intelligence Measurement” (Chair: Jones) | ||
| 15:00 | |||||
| (Chair: Greif) | (Chair: Astromskis) | ||||
| 15:30 | Papers A5/B5 | A5 | Jiri Wiedermann and Jan van Leeuwen (CAS, Prague) Epistemic Computation and Artificial Intelligence | B5 | Rene Mogensen (Birmingham CU) Dynamic conceptual spaces in computational creativity |
| 16:00 | Papers A6/B6 | A6 | Matthew Childers (U Iowa) Naturalism for Robots: Teleosemantics, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Evolution | B6 | Bhatnagar, Avin, Cave, Halina, Loe, Ó HÉigeartaigh, Price, Shevlin & Hernandez-Orallo (Cambridge) Mapping Intelligence: Requirements and Possibilities |
| 16:30 | Coffee & Posters | ||||
| 17:00 | Papers A7/B7 | A7 | Paul Schweizer (Edinburgh) Artificial Brains and Hybrid Minds | B7 | Yoshihiro Maruyama (Oxford) The Frame Problem, Gödelian Incompleteness, and the Lucas-Penrose Argument |
| 17:30 | Papers A8/B8 | A8 | Blay Whitby (U Sussex) The Immorality of Artificial Emotions | B8 | Abhishek Mishra (NU Singapore) Moral Status of Digital Agents – Acting Under Uncertainty |
| 18:00 | Keynote Zeng | Yi Zeng, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing | “From Brain-inspired Learning to Brain-inspired Conscious Machine” (Chair: Wiedermann) | ||
| 18:30 | |||||
| 19:00 | Dinner | Conference Dinner, Weetwood Hall “Jacobean Suite” (pre-booked only) | |||
| 20:30 | … | ||||
| DAY 2 (Sunday 05.11.2017) | |||||
| [Coffee] | |||||
| 10:00 | Keynote Schneider | Susan Schneider, University of Connecticut/Princeton IAS | “Artificial General Intelligence and Conscious AI: Transcending the Brain?” | ||
| 10:30 | |||||
| 11:00 | Coffee & Posters | ||||
| A | Ethics (Chair: Barnden) | B | Methods (Chair: Dodig-Crnkovic) | ||
| 11:30 | Papers A9/B9 | A9 | Al Baker and Simon Wells (Leeds & Edinburgh) When should we let Artificial Intelligences persuade? | B9 | Ron Chrisley (U Sussex) Epistemic Consistency in Knowledge-Based Systems |
| 12:00 | Papers A10/B10 | A10 | Geoff Keeling (Bristol) Against Leben’s Rawlsian Collision Algorithm for Driverless Cars | B10 | Daniel Kokotajlo and Ramana Kumar (UNC Chapel Hill) New Work for Decision Theory |
| 12:30 | Papers A11/B11 | A11 | Michael Prinzing (UNC Chapel Hill) Friendly Superintelligence: All You Need is Love | B11 | J Mark Bishop, John Howroyd and Andrew Martin (Goldsmiths, London) What is cognition if not interaction? |
| 13:00 | Papers A12/B12 | A12 | Sander Beckers (Cornell U) AAAI: an Argument Against Artificial Intelligence | B12 | Boluda, Ferri, Hernandez-Orallo, Martínez-Plumed & Ramírez (Valencia) Modelling machine learning models |
| 13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:30 | Keynote Hogg | David C. Hogg, University of Leeds | “Laying the perceptual groundwork for abstraction”(Chair: Sloman) | ||
| 15:00 | |||||
| (Chair: Zambak) | (Chair: Sloman) | ||||
| 15:30 | Papers A13/B13 | A13 | Tom Everitt (ANU Canberra) A Vision for Safe AI | B13 | Shlomo Danziger (HU Jerusalem) Where Intelligence Lies: Externalist and Linguistic Perspectives on the Turing Test and AI |
| 16:00 | Papers A14/B14 | A14 | Torben Swoboda (Bayreuth) Predicting Autonomous Weapon Systems – An Alleged Responsibility Gap | B14 | Tobias Wängberg, Mikael Böörs, Elliot Catt, Tom Everitt & Marcus Hutter (ANU Canberra) A Game-Theoretic Analysis of The Off-Switch Game |
| 16:30 | Coffee & Posters | ||||
| 17:00 | Keynote Millican | Peter Millican, University of Oxford | “Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Education, and the Future of Humanity” | ||
| 17:30 |
04.11.2017