Brains@Bay Meetup - Sensorimotor Learning in AI (Dec 15, 2021)
Channel: Numenta
Date: 2021-12-16

In this Brains@Bay meetup, we focused on how sensorimotor learning can lead to more flexible and robust machine learning systems. To learn more about Brains@Bay, visit our Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/Brains-Bay/

Richard Sutton (DeepMind and University of Alberta) first talked about the increasing role of sensorimotor experience in AI and proposed a minimal architecture for an intelligent agent that is entirely grounded in experience.

Next, Clément Moulin-Frier (Flowers Laboratory) presented an evolutionary and developmental perspective on open-ended skill acquisition in humans and machines, highlighting the key role of intrinsically motivated exploration in the generation of behavioral regularity and diversity.

Finally, Viviane Clay (Numenta and University of Osnabrück), talked about the capabilities that emerge from letting deep neural networks learn more like biological brains - through sensorimotor interaction with the world.

Follow-up Q&A and slides will be posted soon - check the meetup page for updates. 

Link to meetup and talk abstracts: https://www.meetup.com/Brains-Bay/events/282182527/

0:00 Introduction 
2:50 Richard Sutton: The Increasing Role of Sensorimotor Experience in Artificial Intelligence
40:59 Clément Moulin-Frier: Open-ended Skill Acquisition in Humans and Machines: An Evolutionary and Developmental Perspective
1:13:05 Viviane Clay: The Effect of Sensorimotor Learning on the Learned Representations in Deep Neural Networks
1:31:33 Discussion + Q&A
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