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Activities at the Institute ~ Coming 7 days
Date & Time (UTC)
Event name
Description
Location
Calendar
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4/22/2024, 1:00 PM
Active Inference GuestStream ~ ActInf goes to school
2
4/22/2024, 3:00 PM
Audio-Visual Production ~ Open Meeting & Co-Working
4
4/23/2024, 12:00 AM
Active Inference Ontology ~ Open Meeting & Co-Working
5
4/24/2024, 2:00 AM
GuestStream #081.1 ~ Arousal coherence, uncertainty, and well-being: an active inference account
6
4/24/2024, 4:00 PM
Action Research on Collective Foraging (Negotiation Affordances) ~ Active Inference Institute
8
4/25/2024, 3:00 PM
Thomas Metzinger ~ Active Inference Insights 021 ~ Pure Awareness, Self-Models, Phenomenal Transparency
9
4/26/2024, 6:00 PM
Weekly Open Hour ~ Active Inference Institute
10
4/29/2024, 3:00 PM
Audio-Visual Production ~ Open Meeting & Co-Working
12
4/30/2024, 12:00 AM
Active Inference Ontology ~ Open Meeting & Co-Working
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Active Projects at Active Inference Institute
Organizational Unit
Type of project
Project
Documentation
Mission & Objectives
Examples of work
Open to participation?
Synchronous meetings
Facilitator
Contact
EduActive
11
Institute
4
Active Inference Ontology
Maintain, improve, elaborate, extend, translate, educate, document, and apply the Active Inference Ontology as core infrastructure for the Active Inference Institute & Ecosystem.
Yes. All are welcome to join our meetings in Discord, and to check out the channel for the project.
Daniel Friedman
Audio-Visual Production
Produce accessible, rigorous, informative (epistemic value) and useful (pragmatic value) audio-visual content, for example through Livestreams, Podcasts, and other formats.
Yes. All are welcome to join our meetings in Discord, and to check out the channel for the project.
Daniel Friedman
Textbook Group (Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022)
Improve the accessibility, rigor, applicability, and impact of the by Parr, Pezzulo, and Friston.
Yes. Anyone interested to join the textbook group can
Daniel Friedman
Active Inference Journal
To develop evolving hybrid (AI+people) project architecture and enabling volunteers team
Yes, especially Developers and people interested in voice processing (speech to text)
To be updated
Alex Vyatkin
Ecosystem
7
Fundamentals of Active Inference
Assist Sanjeev in creating the best possible Fundamentals of Active Inference book(s)!
Yes. this group is open to all learners. To register, and email with any questions.
Weekly recorded meetings, on Zoom Thursdays at 21 UTC.
Daniel Friedman & Sanjeev Namjoshi
Action Research on Collective Foraging (Negotiation Affordances)
To enable work to be perceived as a collective healing practice
Yes. this group is open to all learners.
Wednesdays at 16 UTC in Discord
Susan Hasty
Froebel's System
I am studying under Dr. Matthew Segall at the California Institute of Integral Studies to be able to recognize the philosophical principals Froebel was influenced by. I have joined the 12 week xAPI Spring 2024 cohort to capture data related to Froebel's first gift, the sphere. As a first step, I would like to use xAPI and a few Learning Record Stores to capture and analyze data gathered from ball play. I would like to use the as an initial QRF for prototyping purposes. Eventually all of Froebel's Gifts and Occupations will be analyzed and the research shared.
Yes, open for collaboration — Especially looking for skills in active inference and spatial web technologies.
Meetings to be determined.
Joanne Phillips
Active Inference for Social Sciences
Develop a common ontology and communication strategy, research, write, research more, start discussions...
Yes. New members are welcome to get involved, provide reflective feedback on the ActInf ontology, and explore the versatility, depth, and applicability of ActInf
To be determined
Avel / Icarus
Project Development for “Solving the Tower of Babel Problem: UniFysica Philo-sophia”
To outline, draft, a collection of papers with the title “An Inclusive System of Communication for Sapiens’ Shared Meanings and Cognition: From Blombos to Friston and Fields”
Yes.
TBD
Ana Magdalena Hurtado
Numinia
First mission would be to make sure we are implementing Active Inference in the game properly and is well explained, another mission would be to ensure that the design of the incentives aligned with the values of Numinia and the AII.
We would like to have collaborators that can help on incentive systems, on gamification, on tokenomics, on philosophy, and on the help to properly implement the Active Inference in the game of Numinia. They can join our Discord or we can do a group on the AII discord as well work with the tool similar con coda.io
To be updated
pablofm@numengames.com
MathArt Conversations
Our mission is to illuminate mathart as a synesthesia and to highlight the profound connections between mathematics, active inference formalism, and the arts. Moreover, our objective is to amplify the variations in mathematical and artistic thinking, by working major concepts and theorems cross-disciplinarily.
We are seeking those with artistic background or a background in mathematics who are curious about researching the intersections between math and the arts.
Bi-Weekly synchronous for ideations and theme planning
ReInference
9
Institute
3
RxInfer.jl learning and development group
Learn and apply RxInfer.jl in 2024 — building out multiscale selves and capacities for generative modeling.
Yes. Everyone interested in working with Active Inference, Julia, and RxInfer.jl is welcome.
Daniel Friedman
Knowledge Engineering
This project seeks to alleviate the information burden in the Active Inference Institute & Ecosystem through information curation, organization, and condensation- i.e. providing summaries of institute productions (courses, livestreams, etc), enhancing the CRM, etc
Yes. Anyone curious or knowledgeable about knowledge engineering & automations- people can attend the weekly meetings or reach out to me to schedule a better time for synchronous work
To be updated
Bleu Knight
Active Blockference
We are applying Active Inference by building capacities & creating examples of generative models.
Yes. Everyone interested in working with Active Inference, of any level of familiarity with the formalism/application, is welcome to join.
Daniel Friedman
Ecosystem
6
Symbolic cognitive robotics
Explore the joint problem space of “symbolic active inference”, “societies of mind” and “mortal computing”, with an emphasis on unsupervised learning.
Yes, including Prolog and Elixir programmers and anyone with an interest in symbolic machine learning or applied epistemology.
Jean-François Cloutier
Active Inference Account of Belief Updating in PTSD
Write a theoretical paper in the style of Parr et al. chapter 6
Yes for those with interest in social science, and those that research ActInf and psychopathology.
As needed.
Jeremy Cooper
Humanity’s Story of an Uncertain Self
Producing an academic paper or blog that contains a set of equations, computer simulations, and ultimately a framework that explains the core components of humanity’s sociological-narrative framework. Specifically, breaking down a few pieces of say, ancient epics, along with an set of economic and civic institutions, would allow us to model to simulate, predict, and give mastery over the otherwise seemingly intractable world of humanity’s cultural niche.
Yes, especially with interests in: statistical programing (R/Python/etc.), psychology, sociology humanities (English, Religion, Classical, etc.), Mathematics, Economics
To be updated
Shagor (Shaggy) Rahman
From Instrument to Intelligent Agent:
Deploying Robotic Microscopy and Al to
Manage Soil Biology at Scale
Turn a microscope into an intelligent agent by implementing active inference ML, build mortal computer out of soil biology/IA.
To be updated
Craig Arnold
Active InferAnts
Develop integrative and applicable methods for Ants and Beyond.
Yes. All curious nestmates are welcome to review the previous stigmergy as well as join ongoing synchronous interactions.
To be added
Daniel Friedman
To model human translation processes through an Active Inference Agent
Yes, individuals interested in translation, AIF, cognitive modelling
Weekly zoom meetings
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