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Coffee and Check In
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Opening Remarks
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Representation of the world in the human brain

Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley)
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Modeling Navigation

Yossi Yovel (Tel-Aviv University)
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Coffee Break
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Other Beings

Ken Nakayama (UC Berkeley/ Harvard)
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Social is inverse math

William Cunningham (Google DeepMind)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Plenary (in person only)
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Breakout (in person only)
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Coffee Break
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Talk by

Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check In
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World Models and the Emergence of a “First-Person” Perspective in an AI

Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Talk by

Robert Barton (University of Durham)
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Coffee Break
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Breakout (in person only)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Plenary (in person only)
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Breakout (in person only)
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Coffee Break
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Talk by

Shiry Ginosar (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
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Talk by

Jacob Andreas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Social NeuroAI of World Modeling: Embodied Dynamics, Collective Intelligence and Relational Computation

Guillaume Dumas (CR-CHUSJ / Mila - Quebec AI Institute, University of Montreal)
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Coffee and Check In
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Nest construction by weaver ants: Cognition without a brain

Ofer Feinerman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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Local Coordination and the Geometry of Social Networks

Omer Tamuz (Caltech)
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Coffee Break
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Breakout (in person only)
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Lunch (on your own)
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The Conscious Turing Machine (CTM): a Theoretical Computer Science Examination of Consciousness.

Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Breakout (in person only)
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Coffee Break
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Talk by

Phillip Isola ()
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Natural behavior is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement

Vikram Gadagkar (Columbia University)
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Talk by

Tatyanna Sharpee (Salk Institute)
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Coffee and Check In
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Talk by

Alyosha Efros (UC Berkeley)
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Pre-language learning of conceptual structures

Shimon Ullman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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Coffee Break
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Breakout (in person only)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Plenary (in person only)
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Breakout (in person only)
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Coffee Break
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Talk by

Eva Dyer (University of Pennsylvania)
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Efficient Communication via Convention Formation / Knot So Simple: A Minimalistic Environment for Spatial Reasoning

Yoav Artzi (Cornell University)
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Why unsupervised “object centric learning” may not make sense and what to do about it (TBD)

Daniel Zoran (Google DeepMind)
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Coffee and Check In
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Systems A/B/M : Lessons on Autonomous Learning from Cognitive Science

Jitendra Malik (UC Berkeley)
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Bridging the gap between Minds & Machines

Michal Irani (Weizmann Institute)
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Coffee Break
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learning from interaction

Alane Suhr (UC Berkeley)
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Hierarchical structure of language and narratie recall

Misha Tsodyks (Institute for Advanced Study)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Social World Models

Paul Liang (MIT)
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Oscillator associative memories for high-capacity, compositional inference

Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley)
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Breakout (in person only)
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Coffee Break
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Breakout (in person only)
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Plenary (in person only)
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