Embodied, Situated, and Grounded Intelligence: Implications for AI - Agenda

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All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Each speaker slot includes a 30-minute talk followed by 30 minutes of discussion and a 15-minute break.

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
	Tuesday, April 12th Session chair: Melanie Mitchell
8:00 - 8:15 AM	Melanie Mitchell	Introduction
8:15-9:15 AM	Lisa Miracchi	Why Intelligent Reasoning Must Be Embodied
9:30-10:30 AM	Kenneth Aizawa	Embodied Cognition: Some Philosophical Proposals
10:45-11:45 AM	Daniel Casasanto	The Ad Hoc Construction of Meaning
12:00-12:15 PM	Brian Cantwell Smith (Discussant)
12:15-12:45 PM	Group Discussion
TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
	Wednesday, April 13th Session chair: Tyler Millhouse
8:15-9:15 AM	Guy Dove	Language is a Neuroenhancement
9:30-10:30 AM	Louise Connell	Language, Perception and Action Shape the Human Conceptual System
10:45-11:45 AM	Penny Pexman	Multimodal Grounding for Concrete and Abstract Concepts
12:00-12:15 PM	Andrew Lampinen (Discussant)
12:15-12:45 PM	Group Discussion
TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
	Thursday, April 14th Session chair: Melanie Moses
8:15-9:15 AM	Linda Smith	Why "Self-Generated Learning” May Be More Radical and Consequential Than First Appears
9:30-10:30 AM	Arthur Glenberg and Cameron Jones	Language Comprehension Requires Affordances
10:45-11:45 AM	Yoshua Bengio	System 2 GFlowNets: Inductive Biases Towards Machines that Understand and Think
12:00-12:15 PM	Tyler Marghetis (Discussant)
12:15-12:45 PM	Group Discussion
TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
	Friday, April 15th Session chair: Tyler Millhouse
9:00-10:00 AM	Nick Cheney	Embodiment Without Situatedness: A Case for an Embodied Perspective on Neural Architecture Search
10:15-11:15 AM	Percy Liang	Are Foundation Models Castles in the Air?
11:30-12:30 AM	Chris Potts	Could a Purely Self-Supervised Foundation Model Achieve Grounded Language Understanding?
12:30-12:45 PM	Melanie Mitchell (Discussant)
12:45-1:00 PM	Group Discussion