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ShanghAI Lectures 2011 - Archive

ShanghAI Lectures 2011 - Archive

Lecture 1

2011-09-29 09:00 to 11:00

Intelligence -- an Eternal Conundrum.

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Welcome address by professor Martin Hall, Vice Chancellor of the University of Salford.
Site presentations by the participating universities.
Overview of the new website.

Intelligence -- an Eternal Conundrum.

  • characterizing intelligence, thinking, and cognition
  • Turing Test and Searle's "Chinese Room Though Experiment"
  • intelligence testing - the IQ
  • artificial intelligence and its goals
  • how to study intelligence: the "synthetic methodology"
  • student presentation from Salford University in Manchester, UK

With videos on the Japanese robot Robovie, the European humanoid iCub, and real dogs and robot dogs.

Tasks:
  • read additional papers
  • solve exercise 1
Files:
Lecture01Slides.pdf, SHAIL 2011 Lecture 1 Overview.pdf, Searle_Minds_Brains_Programs.pdf, Sternberg_Holey_Grail.pdf, Teasdale_Owen_Flynn_Effect.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 2

2011-10-13 09:00 to 11:00

Cognition as Computation: Successes and Failures. The Need for an Embodied Perspective.

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Presentation on "Emotional Intelligence" from RGGU students.

Tasks:
Files:
Lecture02SlidesWithNotes.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
Robotic Automation in Manufacturing
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 3

2011-10-20 09:00 to 11:00

Towards a Theory of Intelligence.

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Introduction to MediaCityUK by Andrew Cooper, Academic Director MediaCityUK.
Towards a Theory of Intelligence: Braitenberg Vehicles, Swiss Robots.
Guest lectures by Yukie Nagai and Minoru Asada

Tasks:
  • Read chapter 4 of "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think"
  • Read materials for self-study (in the slides)
Files:
Lecture03SlidesForWebSite.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
What should robots learn from caregiver-infant interaction?, Cognitive Developmental Robotics
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 4

2011-10-27 09:00 to 11:00

Design Principles for Intelligent Systems I

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Held from Future University, Hakodate, Japan.

Guest lecture by Toshi Nagakaki: "How does an amoeba tackle a maze?"

Tasks:
Files:
Lecture04SlidesForWebsite.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
How does an amoeba tackle a maze?
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 5

2011-11-03 09:00 to 11:00

Design Principles for Intelligent Systems II

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Guest lectures by Claude Patrick Siegenthaler: "In Search of Embodied Intelligence in Markets" and by Fabio Bonsignorio: "Embodied Finance: Embodying disruptive innovation in embodied cognitive systems"

Tasks:
  • Read chapter 5 of "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think"
Files:
Lecture05SlidesForWebsite.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
In Search of Embodied Intelligence in Markets, Embodied Finance: Embodying Disruptive Innovation in Embodied Cognitive Systems
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 6

2011-11-10 09:00 to 11:00

Guest lectures
Building Brains for Bodies: Artificial Neural Networks

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Guest lectures by Olivier Michel: "Webots: fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots", Koh Hosoda: "Musculoskeletal Humanoids", and Craig Turnbull/Barry Richards: "Robotics and Automation Applied to the Aircraft Industry"

Tasks:
  • Read chapter 5 of "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think"
Files:
Lecture06Slides2011ForWebsite.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording (introduction), SWITCHcast recording (lecture), DAC Architecture
Relevant Guest Lectures:
Webots: Fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots, Musculoskeletal Humanoids, Robotics and Automation Applied to the Aircraft Industry
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 7

2011-11-17 09:00 to 11:00

Evolution: Cognition from Scratch.

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Guest lectures by Josh Bongard: "Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior" and Fumiya Iida: "Soft robotics approach toward artificial ontogenetic development"

Tasks:
Files:
Lecture07Slides2011NewForWebsite.pdf, MarinusBoerkhorst96.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior, Soft robotics approach toward artificial ontogenetic development
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 8

2011-11-24 09:00 to 11:00

Collective Intelligence: Cognition from Interaction

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Student presentation by Yana Reisvich on "Brain in a Vat"
Guest lecture by Thierry Bücheler: "Latest Insights on Human Collective Intelligence"
Flocking: Simulator for Birds http://www.lalena.com/AI/Flock/Flock.aspx

Tasks:
  • Read chapter 7 of "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think"
  • Read materials for self-study (in the slides)
  • Play with the Flocking simulator
Files:
Lecture08SlidesForWebsite.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
Latest Insights on Human Collective Intelligence
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 9

2011-12-01 09:00 to 11:00

Where is Human Memory?

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Guest lecture by Dustin Li: "Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot"

Tasks:
Files:
Lecture09SlidesMemory2011Website.pdf, Collins_Ruina_Tedrake_Wisse_efficient_bipedal_robots.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 10

2011-12-08 09:00 to 11:00

Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Guest lectures by Barbara Webb: "AI: Artificial Insects" and Tamas Haidegger: "Humans-robots-humans: who is operating who?"

Tasks:
  • Read chapter 5 of "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think"
Files:
Lecture10Slides2011DevelopmentWebsite.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
AI – Artificial Insects, Humans-robots-humans: Who is operating who?
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011

Lecture 11

2011-12-15 09:00 to 12:00

Summary: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think.
Future Trends.

Lecturer:
Rolf Pfeifer
Lecture Content:

Guest lectures by Weidong Chen: "Enhancing autonomy and safety of assistive robots", Rüdiger Dillmann: "Programming by Demonstration", Kevin Warwick: "AI with biological brains", and Inman Harvey: "Metaphorical homunculi: we don't really have little men inside our heads"

Tasks:
Files:
Week11FutureTrends2011.pdf
Video Link:
SWITCHcast recording
Relevant Guest Lectures:
Enhancing Autonomy and Safety of Assistive Robots, Programming by Demonstration, AI with biological brains, Metaphorical homunculi: we don't really have little men inside our heads
Question Board:
ShanghAI Lectures 2011