The 3rd International Symposium of
the Institute for AI and Beyond
February 17 (Fri.), 2023 3:00pm-6:30pm (JST)Event Format: Hybrid (Onsite + Online)
Onsite Venue:
Ito Hall (B2F, Ito International Research Center, The University of Tokyo)
Online: Zoom webinar

Exploring the boundary between brain intelligence
and artiﬁcial intelligence:
What is needed to realize Beyond AI ?
Event Overview
Recent research on the brain and artiﬁcial intelligence has shown remarkable progress. What are the similarities and diﬀerences
between the two diﬀerent types of intelligence? And what can be achieved by combining these two? While the fusion of thebrain and artiﬁcial intelligence has the potential to create the "Beyond AI" ﬁeld that surpasses current biological and artiﬁcial
intelligence, there are many challenges that need to be overcome, including ethical issues. In this symposium, we will discuss
the present and future of brain and artiﬁcial intelligence research and ask what is needed to realize "Beyond AI".
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Organized by Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo
Contact: Oﬃce of the Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo E-mail: event@beyondai.jp

The 3rd International Symposium ofthe Institute for AI and Beyond
Exploring the boundary between brain intelligence and artiﬁcial intelligence:
What is needed to realize Beyond AI ?

Program
OpeningRemarks

Teruo Fujii President, The University of Tokyo
Junichi Miyakawa President & CEO, SoftBank Corp.

Purpose ofthe Event

Yuji Ikegaya Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo

1st Session
Ph.D.
Miguel Nicolelis M.D.,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology, Duke University

SpecialLectureGraduate School of Medicine / International Research Center for
Kenichi Ohki Professor,
Neurointelligence (IRCN), The University of Tokyo

Irina Higgins Research Scientist, DeepMind
Break
Edward Chang Professor, Neurological Surgery, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Professor, International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN),
Yukie Nagai Project
The University of Tokyo
Biological Sciences /Rafael Yuste Professor,Director, NeuroTechnology Center, Columbia University

Break2nd Session
PanelDiscussion

What future will advances in the brain and AI create?
Moderator
Panelists

Yuji Ikegaya Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Professor, Director of Research Center for Community Knowledge, National

Noriko Arai Institute of Informatics

Director General of Institute of Science for Education
Senior Researcher, Sony Computer Science Laboratories,

Kenichiro Mogi Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo

Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies/

Yuko Itatsu Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Masashi Sugiyama Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
ClosingRemarks

MCMasami Hagiya Director, Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo

Daichi Konno Medical Doctor, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Language: English/Japanese (Simultaneous interpretation oﬀered)The 3rd International Symposium of the Institute for AI and Beyond
Opening Remarks

Teruo Fujii President, The University of Tokyo
Dr. Teruo Fujii became the 31st President of the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) on April 1, 2021, with a six-year term. He was previously theExecutive Vice President in charge of ﬁnance and external relations for the university. He also served as the Director General of the Institute ofIndustrial Sciences (IIS) of the university from 2015 to 2018. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from UTokyo in 1993 and held research
positions at IIS and RIKEN prior to becoming a professor of IIS in 2007.

Junichi Miyakawa President & CEO, SoftBank Corp.
Junichi Miyakawa is President & CEO at SoftBank Corp. (since 2021), and also serves as President and CEO of HAPSMobile Inc. and Director ofMONET Technologies Inc. Miyakawa s past positions include Technical Chief Operating Oﬃcer at US-based Sprint Corporation (2014), Director,Executive Vice President & CTO of SoftBank Mobile Corp. (now SoftBank Corp.) (2007), Director of SoftBank BB Corp. (now SoftBank Corp.)(2003) and Representative Director & President of Nagoya Metallic Communications Corp. (now SoftBank Corp.) (2000). Prior to these positions,in 1991 he became Representative Director & President of KK Momotaro Internet.

Purpose of the EventYuji Ikegaya Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Born in 1970. Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Tokyo in 1998. Dr. Ikegaya studied at Columbia University (New York,USA) from 2002 to 2005, and he has been in his current position (Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo) since2014. His specialty is neurophysiology, exploring brain health. He is also the head of the ERATO Brain-AI Hybrid Project since 2018, which aims
to pioneer new intelligence through brain implantation of AI chips. He has received the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Scienceand Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2008), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(2013), and the Japan Academy Prize for Academic Encouragement (2013), among others. His publications include many popular science books forthe general public.

1st Session
Ph.D.
Miguel Nicolelis M.D.,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology, Duke University
Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at Duke University, where he also served as a Professor of
Biomedical Engineering, Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychology and Neuroscience; and founder of Duke's Center for Neuroengineering.
He is founder and Scientiﬁc Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal; and founder of the Walk
Again Project, an international consortium of scientists/engineers, dedicated to developing an exoskeleton device to assist paralyzed patients inregaining their mobility.
As a world-renowned leader in understanding the physiological principles that govern mammalian brain circuits, their dynamics and plastic
potential in freely behaving animals, Dr. Nicolelis worked to integrate this knowledge with a variety of engineering and computer science tools tocreate a new paradigm - brain-machine interfaces - which launched the ﬁeld of neuroengineering.
Dr. Nicolelis led the creation of a new generation of neuroprosthetic devices which will likely change the future face of clinical neurology andneurosurgery.

Graduate School of Medicine /Kenichi Ohki Professor,
International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN), The University of Tokyo
Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 1996. PhD in Medicine from the Graduate School of Medicine, the University ofTokyo in 2000. After working as an assistant at the University of Tokyo, a research fellow and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, he becamea professor at Graduate School of Medical Sciences,the Kyushu University in 2010 and a professor at Graduate School of Medicine, the Universityof Tokyo in 2016. Professor Ohki is a leading expert on functional imaging of neurons in the brain. He is a global pioneer in technology used tomeasure the activities of thousands of neurons, and he uses this technology to reconstruct brain information in AI. Ohki pursues a greater
understanding of brain information processing in order to develop next-generation AI that functions similarly to the brain.

Irina Higgins Research Scientist, DeepMind
Irina is a Staﬀ Research Scientist at DeepMind, where she works in the Frontiers team. Her work aims to bring together insights from the ﬁelds ofneuroscience and physics to advance general artiﬁcial intelligence through improved representation learning. Before joining DeepMind, Irina was aBritish Psychological Society Undergraduate Award winner for her achievements as an undergraduate student in Experimental Psychology at
Westminster University, followed by a DPhil at the Oxford Center for Computational Neuroscience and Artiﬁcial Intelligence, where she focusedon understanding the computational principles underlying speech processing in the auditory brain. During her DPhil, Irina also worked on
developing poker AI, applying machine learning in the ﬁnance sector, and working on speech recognition at Google Research.

Edward Chang Professor, Neurological Surgery, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Dr. Edward Chang is a neurosurgeon who treats patients with epilepsy, brain tumors, and cranial nerve compression syndromes such as trigeminal
neuralgia and hemifacial spasm. He is Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCSF.
He co-directs the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses, a collaborative enterprise of UCSF and the University of California, Berkeley. Thecenter brings together experts in engineering, neurology and neurosurgery to develop state-of-the-art biomedical technology to restore function forpatients with neurological disabilities such as paralysis and speech disorders.
Dr. Chang earned his medical degree at UCSF, where he also completed a residency in neurosurgery. He was honored with the Blavatnik National
Laureate for Life Sciences in 2015, in recognition of his contributions to deciphering the neural code of speech. Dr. Chang is the inaugural Bowes
Biomedical Investigator at UCSF and HHMI Faculty Scholar. Dr Chang was inducted to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Professor, International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN),Yukie Nagai Project
The University of Tokyo
Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University in 2004. Yukie Nagai is a Project Professor, International Research Center for Neurointelligence(IRCN), the University of Tokyo and has been engaged in the Basic Research AI and Society of the Institute for AI and Beyond as a projectleader. She has been investigating underlying neural mechanisms for social cognitive development by computational approaches. She was elected
to "30 women in robotics you need to know about" in 2019, "World s 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics" in 2020, and "35 Women inRobotics Engineering and Science" in 2022.

Biological Sciences /Rafael Yuste Professor,Director, NeuroTechnology Center, Columbia University
Rafael Yuste, M.D., Ph.D, is a neuroscientist that studies the cerebral cortex at Columbia University, where he is Professor of Biological Sciencesand Director of the Neurotechnology Center. He led the researchers who proposed the US BRAIN Initiative, and the International BRAIN
Initiative. He also led the Morningside Group of 25 researchers and clinicians who proposed novel human rights ( Neurorights ) to protect brain
activity and its information. He has obtained awards for his research from the Mayor of New York City, the Society for Neuroscience and theDirector of the NIH. He shared the Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize for his science and ethics advocacy work.

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2nd Session
Panelist

Professor, Director of Research Center for Community Knowledge, National Institute of Informatics

Noriko Arai Director General of Institute of Science for Education

Noriko Arai received her doctoral degree in science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1997. Her research interests are quite interdisciplinary:mathematical logic, artiﬁcial intelligence, cognitive science, math education, computer supported collaborative learning, science of science policy(SoSP) etc. She is leading several projects. Netcommons Project, researchmap Project, Todai Robot Project, Reading Skill Test Project etc.She wasawarded many prizes including Prizes for Science and Technology, the Commendation for Science and Technology by Ministry of Education andTechnology in 2010 and 2021.

Panelist

Researcher, Sony Computer Science Laboratories,
Kenichiro Mogi Senior
Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo
Ken Mogi is a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster based in Tokyo, interested in the mind-brain problem. He is the author of A little Book ofIkigai (1997) and The Way of Nagomi (2022).

Panelist

Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies/Yuko Itatsu Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Ph. D. in History from the University of Southern California in 2009. Yuko Itatsu is a Professor at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary
Information Studies, The University of Tokyo. Since October 2022, she has become the project leader of the B AI Global Forum which investigates
the norms, ethics and praxis for a gender-equal society which guarantees minority rights in the AI age. She is a social and cultural historianspecializing in quotidian practices of media, leisure and power. She joined the Women in AI Asia Paciﬁc Advisory Board in 2022.

Panelist

Masashi Sugiyama Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Masashi Sugiyama received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2001. After working as an assistant andassociate professor at the same institute, he became a professor at the University of Tokyo in 2014, and has concurrently served as the Director ofthe RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project since 2016. His research interests include theories and algorithms of machine learning. He
received the Japan Academy Medal in 2017 and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports,Science and Technology in 2022. He published "Machine Learning from Weak Supervision" from MIT Press in August 2022.

Closing Remarks

Masami Hagiya Director, Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo
After receiving M.Sc. from the University of Tokyo, Masami Hagiya worked for Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University,and received a Doctor of Science in 1988. He was a professor at Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science andTechnology, the University of Tokyo, from 2001 to 2022. He has been working in the ﬁelds of software science and engineering, including theoryof programming languages, software testing and formal veriﬁcation. He is also working in the ﬁelds of natural computing (computing by naturalphenomena), including DNA computing. He was appointed as the Director of Institute for AI and Beyond in April 2021.

MCDaichi Konno Medical Doctor, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 2015. PhD in Medicine from the Graduate School of Medicine, the University ofTokyo in 2022. Aﬃliated with the Department of Geriatrics, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, Graduate
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He specializes inneuroscience, artiﬁcial intelligence, and aging. In addition to his clinical and research work, he actively disseminates the latest research trends on
the brain. He is the author of 'How far can human abilities be extended if we connect the brain and artiﬁcial intelligence? The Frontiers ofBrain-AI Fusion'.