UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
    	     COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

	     		        presents


				     "Offloaded Agency"

		             Prof. Takashi Ikegami

	                 (University of Tokyo)

		           17th May 2019 (Friday)

			            14:00 - 15:00


		        Hatfield, College Lane Campus
		             Seminar Room B160

	    	    Everyone is welcome to attend

	     	    Refreshments will be available

Abstract:
I have developed a new android called “Alter”.  Based on the artificial life principle (using T3 chaos and the new learning principle called stimulus avoidance[1][2]), Alter behaves autonomously and he receives visual and sound information from the environment.  Here Alter mimics human behavior coming in front of  him spontaneously using the internal simulator. Especially with this version  at the Barbican center[3], Alter   creates new actions patterns by  switching between the action sequence generated by the internal simulator  and the stored memories of its past behaviors [4]. I would like to discuss the purpose of this project  Alter and the concept of " offloaded agency".  This work is also based on the series of our psychological experiments called Perceptual Crossing Experiments"[5]. 

References:

[1] Lana Sinapayen, Atsushi Masumori, Takashi Ikegami: Learning by stimulation avoidance: A principle to control spiking neural networks dynamics., PLoS ONE,12(2): e0170388. 2017.

[2] Doi, I., Ikegami, T., Masumori, A., Kojima, H., Ogawa K., and Ishiguro, H. A new design principle for an autonomous robot, 14th European Conference on Artificial Life(ECAL2017), pp.490-466.

[3] The Barbican major new exhibition 2019 May 15th- : AI: More than Human
http://digicult.it/slider/ai-more-than-human/

[4] Otto E Rossler, Lisa-Ruth Vial, Frank Kuske, August Nitschke, Takashi Ikegami and Andrei Ujica. Brain Equation and Personogenesis. Clinics in Pediatrics, vol.2 2019, pp.1-11.

[5] Hiroki Kojima, Tom Froese, Mizuki Oka, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Takashi Ikegami: A Sensorimotor Signature of the Transition to Conscious Social Perception: Co-regulation of Active and Passive Touch, Frontiers in Psychology, 8.01778, 2017.