ActInf GuestStream 080.1 ~ Laura Desirée Di Paolo: "Active Inference Goes to School"
"Active Inference Goes to School. The Importance of Active Learning in the Age of Large Language Models" Laura Desirée Di Paolo, Ben White, Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT, Axel Constant, and Andy Clark https://osf.io/preprints/osf/zwa83
Human learning essentially involves embodied interactions with the material world. But our worlds now include increasing numbers of powerful and (apparently) disembodied generative AIs. In what follows we ask how best to understand these new (somewhat “alien”, because of their disembodied nature) resources and how to incorporate them in our educational practices. We focus on methodologies that encourage exploration and embodied interactions with ‘prepared’ material environments, such as the carefully organised settings of Montessori education. Using the Active Inference Framework, we approach our questions by thinking about human learning as epistemic foraging and prediction error minimization. We end by arguing that generative AIs should figure naturally as new elements in prepared learning environments by facilitating sequences of precise prediction error enabling trajectories of self-correction. In these ways we anticipate new synergies between (apparently) disembodied and (essentially) embodied forms of intelligence.
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Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
By Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo and Karl J. Friston
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045353/active-inference/ https://www.activeinference.org/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsi6IAmt4Zc
Constructing cultural landscapes: Active Inference for the Social Sciences
Avel Guénin-Carlut, Ben White, Mahault Albarracin, Lorena Sganzerla, Daniel Friedman
A participatory online course in 2023 co-organized by Kairos Research and the Active Inference Institute
More information:
https://www.activeinference.org/education/active-inference-for-the-social-sciences
https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StyeVhPobXg
This week, Darius is joined by a truly legendary figure in the world of neuropsychology: Chris Frith. In this conversation, Chris takes us through his seminal oeuvre , expounding the key insights he has made in the fields of social cognition, schizophrenia, consciousness, agency and selfhood.
Chris Frith
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=0YEXoMMAAAAJ&hl=en
https://sites.google.com/site/chrisdfrith/Home
Darius Parvizi-Wayne
https://twitter.com/dparviziwayne
Active Inference Insititute
https://www.activeinference.org
https://twitter.com/InferenceActive
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23XMBqlFi78
Active Inference Insights welcomes Mahault Albarracin onto the show for its second episode. Mahault is a PhD candidate in cognitive computing at the University of Quebec at Montreal and the Director of Product at VERSES. Together, she and Darius traverse the complex plains of epistemic communities, social scripts and artificial intelligence, all from the lens of active inference.
Active Inference Insititute
https://www.activeinference.org
https://twitter.com/InferenceActive
Mahault Albarracin
https://twitter.com/MahaultAlbarra1
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KAxZtUIAAAAJ&hl=en
https://philpeople.org/profiles/mahault-albarracin
Darius Parvizi-Wayne
https://twitter.com/dparviziwayne
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njbpi3YTMPY
Full playlist for Cohort 5 textbook group
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All Active Inference Institute livestreams and videos:
https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/livestreams
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
By Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo and Karl J. Friston
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045353/active-inference/ https://www.activeinference.org/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sS-Qf60Uaw
All Active Inference Institute livestreams and videos:
https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/livestreams
Full Textbook Group Cohort 4 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNm0u2n1Iwdpm1wcq9DOGSdKDDvnEt_xG
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
By Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo and Karl J. Friston
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045353/active-inference/ https://www.activeinference.org/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZk_iF9EqM