[Lumi] Talk on "The Ethics of Augmented Intelligence" by Marcello Ienca (EPFL) Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 14:00 (2pm) CET, presence/Zoom
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Dear All,
We are happy to announce that the second talk of LUMI will be given again in hybrid format on Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 14:00 CET by Dr. Marcello Ienca, head of the Intelligent Systems Ethics Group at EPFL.
*Title: “The Ethics of Augmented Intelligence”.
*Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) and the human brain are profoundly different cognitive systems. Nevertheless, they can interact with each other dynamically. One such way of interaction concerns the possibility of using AI to enhance human cognition. This approach, known as 'augmented intelligence', raises important ethical issues. These include implications for agency, autonomy and moral responsibility, and the moral permissibility of cognitive enhancement. This talk will offer an overview and critical analysis of the ethical implications of augmented intelligence and human-computer interaction.
*Speaker: Marcello Ienca is a scientist at the College of Humanities of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) where he leads the Intelligent Systems Ethics Group. Prior to that he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). Dr. Ienca's scholarship focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of Artificial Intelligence and human cognition, with particular regard to the interaction between brains and machines. His research has been published in journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Machine Intelligence and Neuron. Ienca has been appointed as an expert advisor on bioethics and AI by the Council of Europe and is a member of the Steering Committee on Neurotechnology of the Organisation of Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD).
*Date:
Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 14:00 (2pm) CET
*Location:
Room D1.01, Sector D, first floor, Campus Est, USI-SUPSI, Lugano-Viganello
*Zoom link:
https://supsi.zoom.us/j/7558414785?pwd=Yy9zL3hBR0Z4cm1uc1Z3ZXpkQkkyUT09
Meeting ID: 755 841 4785
Passcode: marcello
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Informatics Seminar - Computational Models for Ecological Perception in Virtual and Augmented Reality
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Dear Colleagues,
Please accept my apologies for cross-posting this invitation to an upcoming talk given by Fabio Solari, who is currently visiting Prof Didyk this Friday:
https://www.inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/10171?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=em...
Date and time: 19.11.2021, 14:00.
Location: meeting room on the 4th floor
MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzhiYzBiZDktOWRhYS...
Speaker: Fabio Solari, University of Genoa, Italy
Title: Computational Models for Ecological Perception in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Abstract:
A bio-inspired computational model of visual perception for action tasks is proposed to provide clues to better design virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) systems. The proposed neural model is based on space-variant mapping, disparity, and optic flow computation by implementing paradigms of the dorsal visual processing stream. The cortical representation of the visual information is directly exploited to infer features related to the real world without devising ad-hoc computer vision algorithms.
Besides artificial vision applications, the proposed model can mimic and describe human behavioral data of both motion and depth perception.By leveraging previous outcomes, we can employ the modeled perception to improve the experience in VR and AR environments: in particular, to implement a foveated depth-of-field blur that mitigates cybersickness.
Bio:
Fabio Solari is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering of the University of Genoa, Italy.
His research activity concerns the study of visual perception to design novel bio-inspired artificial vision systems and to develop natural human-computer interactions in virtual and augmented reality. In particular, his research interests are related to computational models of motion and depth estimation, space-variant visual processing, and scene interpretation. Such models can replicate relevant aspects of human experimental data. This can help to improve virtual and augmented reality systems to provide a natural perception. Moreover, he is interested in the perceptual assessment of virtual/augmented reality systems, with specific attention to the perceptual and cognitive aspects, and in the development of systems that allow a natural experience and ecological human-computer interactions.
Currently, he is the principal investigator of three international projects: Interreg Alcotra CLIP ``E-Santé/Silver Economy'', PROSOL ``Jeune'', and PROSOL ``Senior''. He has participated in five European projects: FP7-ICT, EYESHOTS, and SEARISE; FP6-IST-FET, DRIVSCO; FP6-NEST, MCCOOP; FP5-IST-FET, ECOVISION. He is a reviewer for Italian PRIN and FIRB projects, and Marie Curie fellowships. He was general chair of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS 2020) 9-11 December 2020, Genova, Italy. He has a pending International Patent Application (WO2013088390) on augmented reality, and two Italian Patent Applications on virtual (No. 0001423036) and augmented (No. 0001409382) reality.
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