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DOES AI HAVE AGENCY? With Professor. Karl Friston and Riddhi J. Pitliya
Agency in the context of cognitive science, particularly when considering the free energy principle, extends beyond just human decision-making and autonomy. It encompasses a broader understanding of how all living systems, including non-human entities, interact with their environment to maintain their existence by minimising sensory surprise.
According to the free energy principle, living organisms strive to minimize the difference between their predicted states and the actual sensory inputs they receive. This principle suggests that agency arises as a natural consequence of this process, particularly when organisms appear to plan ahead many steps in the future.
Riddhi J. Pitliya is based in the computational psychopathology lab doing her Ph.D at the University of Oxford and works with Professor Karl Friston at VERSES.
References:
THE FREE ENERGY PRINCIPLE—A PRECIS [Ramstead]
https://www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contributions/the-free-energy-principle-a-precis/
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior [Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl J. Friston]
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5299/Active-InferenceThe-Free-Energy-Principle-in-Mind
The beauty of collective intelligence, explained by a developmental biologist | Michael Levin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U93x9AWeuOA
Growing Neural Cellular Automata
https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca
Carcinisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Prof. KENNETH STANLEY - Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYGXYeMq_E
On Defining Artificial Intelligence [Pei Wang]
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jagi-2019-0002
Why? The Purpose of the Universe [Goff]
Umwelt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms [Yong]
What's it like to be a bat [Nagal]
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf
COUNTERFEIT PEOPLE. DANIEL DENNETT. (SPECIAL EDITION)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axJtywd9Tbo
We live in the infosphere [FLORIDI]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLNGvvgq3eg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYrJJNdrEg
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