From: Osmo Tervonen osmo.tervonen@oulu.fi Sent: tiistai 23. huhtikuuta 2024 13.22 To: LTK ltk-staff@oulu.fi; LTK-idm LTK-idm@oulu.fi Subject: PhD Joscha Bach: Lecture May 16th 12.00-14.00 Leena Palotie salissa

Hyvä tiedekunnan väki; Dear Medical Faculty people

Kognitiotieteiden ja tekoälyn tutkija PhD Joscha Bach vihitään Oulun Yliopiston kunniatohtoriksi 18.5.2024. Hän on luvannut pitää tiedekunnassa esitelmän tutkimusalastaan keskiviikkona 16.5.2024 klo 12.00-14.00, paikkana Leena Palotie -sali.

Cognition scientist and AI researcher Dr Joscha Bach will be conferred as a honorary doctor on May 18th in Oulu University. He will give a talk about his research and inerest areas on Wednesday May 16th at 12.00-14.00 in Leena Palotie lecture hall.

Luennon aiheena ovat mm. asiat/The topics covered will be:

Synteettinen tietoisuus vs ihmisen älykkyys: Kuinka mieli toimii? Kuinka meidän mielemme muodostaa todellisuuden?

Synthetic sentience and human intelligence: How does the mind work ? How do we create the reality?

Tämä on ainutlaatuisen kiinnostava tilaisuus. This is must to attend.

Alla tietoa tri Joscha Bachiin liittyen. Suosittelen youtube linnkkien kuuntelua./ There are some more information of Joscha Bach below. I recommend also to watch the youtube links.

Parhain terveisin/Best regards

Osmo

Osmo Tervonen, M.D. Dean, Professor of Radiology Faculty of Medicine University of Oulu +358 40 5587459

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM&t=7119s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApHnqHfFWBk&t=175s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVoXxYSiOBI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxm810ruz0&t=494s

Brief summary of Joscha Bach Diplomas: Computer Science and Philosophy 2000, PhD in Cognitive Science (magna cum laude) 2007 Main occupations and posts: Humboldt University of Berlin, Department for Computer Science 2000-2003. University of Osnabrück, Institute for Cognitive Science 2003- 2005. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain 2011-2012. Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, 2014-2016. Research Scientist at the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, 2016-2019. Principal Research Engineer, Intel Labs 2021-2023. Doctoral Thesis: Principles of Synthetic Intelligence. An architecture of motivation and cognition, 2007. Awards: Weser-Ems-Wissenschaftspreis 2007. Kurzweil Price 2012. Templeton Research Award, 2016.

Joscha Bach is an artificial intelligence researcher, cognitive scientist and philosopher. He was born in Germany and currently lives and works in California. He studied computer science and philosophy in Berlin and the university of Waikato (New Zealand), and received his PhD in cognitive science from the University of Osnabrück. Joscha Bach taught and researched at the AI department of Humboldt University of Berlin, the Institute for Cognitive Science in Osnabrück and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and co-founded several startup companies. In 2014, Bach moved to the United States to work at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Since 2019, Bach lives in California, where he lead a research group at the startup AI Foundation, and created a team for cognitive artificial intelligence at Intel. Bach is currently working for the artificial intelligence company LiquidAI. Bach has extensively published in the field of artificial general intelligence, and in the domain of cognitive architectures. Bach developed the cognitive architecture MicroPsi, which combines computational models of the dynamics of motivation and emotion with grounded perception and action, which he discusses in the book "Principles of Synthetic Intelligence". Bach's achievements include philosophical contributions to the study of consciousness, experience, autonomy, selfhood, autonomy and the nature of reality. His perspective combines concepts and insights from physics, psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence research and philosophy of mind into a cohesive framework. The research interests of Joscha Bach focus on the philosophical side of the project of artificial intelligence: understanding the human mind as a mathematical machine. This puts him into an intellectual tradition that includes Aristotle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Julien Offray de LaMettrie, Immanuel Kant, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alan Turing, Oliver Selfridge, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, Aaron Sloman and Dietrich Dörner.