Foundations of Intelligence in Natural and Artificial Systems - Agenda

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organized by Melanie Mitchell (SFI), Melanie Moses (UNM; SFI), and Tyler Millhouse (SFI)
March 15-19, 2021

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Agenda

All times are Mountain Time (MT)

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
	Monday, March 15 Session chair: Melanie Moses
9:00 - 9:50 AM	Melanie Mitchell	Why AI is Harder Than We Think
10:00 - 10:50 AM	Dan Dennett	Knowing What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do
11:00 - 11:50 AM	Alison Gopnik	Three Ages, Three Intelligences: Childhood, Adulthood, and Elderhood, and Exploration, Exploitation and Care
	Tuesday, March 16 Session chair: Tyler Millhouse
9:00 - 9:50 AM	James Evans	Designing Alien Intelligences: Programming Beyond the Limits of Collective Knowledge and Reason
10:00 - 10:50 AM	David Krakauer	Tradition and the Individual Talent: Collective Puzzling at the Limits of Individual Cognition
11:00 - 11:50 AM	Ricard Solé	Intelligence and the Nature of Embodiment: From Liquid to Solid
	Wednesday, March 17 Session chair: Melanie Moses
9:00 - 9:50 AM	Thalia Wheatley	How Other Minds Shape Our Own: Intelligence as a Networked Phenomenon
10:00 - 10:50 AM	Bruno Olshausen	Perception as Model Building
11:00 - 11:50 AM	John Krakauer	Understanding the Cognitive Brain
	Thursday, March 18 Session chair: Melanie Mitchell
9:00 - 9:50 AM	Jessica Flack	The Elements of Collective Intelligence
10:00 - 10:50 AM	Melanie Moses	All Intelligence Is Collective, but Not All Collectives Are Intelligent
11:00 - 11:50 AM	Mirta Galesic	Intelligence Needs (At Least) Two Blades
	Friday, March 19 Session chair: Tyler Millhouse
9:00 - 9:50 AM	David Wolpert	Beyond 20th Century Notions of “an Intelligence”: Using Stacking to Combine Intelligences
10:00 - 10:50 AM	Risto Miikkulainen	Evolving Intelligent Behavior in Virtual Agents
11:00 - 11:50 AM	Stephanie Forrest	Evolution and Engineering