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My PhD Defense Talk

Since I had to partially give my disputation (defense) talk via video call anyway, I could prepare for that by recording myself once or twice. Here is one of those recordings :) Thesis title: Social motorics — a predictive processing model for efficient embodied communication Thesis abstract: Human communication often seems effortless.

Multi-Agent Belief Coordination - A HPBU Demo

I finally came around to upload a special visualization of work from my doctoral thesis, about belief coordination in artificial agents. I show a special visualization of three artificial agents, each equipped with the HPBU architecture, who take turns and communicate their beliefs of a perceived drawing. The agent on

Medium article: A vision for meaningful AI

With my time as a PhD student coming to an end I want to see if there are minds out there who share my vision: Current AI lacks the means to find and creatively use meaning. Let us change that! https://medium.com/@sebkahl/a-vision-for-meaningful-ai-618b4ddd7284

ComCo'19 talk on YouTube

My talk at ComCo 2019 in the beautiful Bohnenkamp-Haus in the botanical garden in Osnabrück, was recorded and is now on YouTube. The title of my talk was Modeling reciprocal belief coordination in social interaction based on free energy minimization and it already includes unpublished simulation results, which I will

Two talks on minimizing free energy during belief coordination

Hi there, it has been a while. I'm currently busy writing up my dissertation thesis, so I probably shouldn't be writing here. But it's late and I'm still a bit psyched about that I've just been contacted twice about my recent talk on my modeling approach, its application in the

New Paper on active inference and self-other distinction

I'm quite proud to finally have my first first author journal paper out! It was published in Frontiers in Psychology Cognitive Science with the title: „A predictive processing model of perception and action for self-other distinction“. That is a mouth full, but quite nicely covers what we are aiming to

My conference tweets from IVA 2015 - Delft, NL

This seems to be broken at the moment. Please come back later, or click on this link, to see the tweets on twitter.com: Tweets Tweets about #iva15 from:glialfire

Conference tweets from Predictive Processing: Reconstructing the Mind

Micah Allen was live tweeting the Predictive Processing: Reconstructing the Mind conference held in Cambridge on 11th and 12th of January, 2018. Really a worth while read if you weren't there! #PredictCam Tweets

Meine Forschung in den CITEC News

Letzte Woche wurde ich von unserer Wissenschaftskommunikation interviewt. Dabei ging es um mein Forschungsprojekt "Social Motorics", das über den Exzellenzcluster Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) finanziert wird. Da es nie so einfach ist die eigene Forschung kurz und knapp und verständlich zusammenzufassen, verlinke ich hier einmal den Artikel. :) https://www.cit-ec.

Der 10%-Mythos, Pseudowissenschaft und etwas Aufklärung

Seit Jahrzehnten schwirrt in der Öffentlichkeit die Annahme durch die Sphären, dass wir nur zehn Prozent unseres Hirns nutzen. Diese Annahme hält sich wacker gegen alle Aufklärungsversuche - auch weil diese wohl nicht die Reichweite erreichen, wie dieses ursprüngliche Hirngespinst. Diese Annahme führt zu Skurilitäten, wie den aktuell in den