Quantitative Life Sciences - Guest Seminar - Tuesday 16 April - Please note change of time/venue

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

Please note CHANGE OF TIME/VENUE


QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES GUEST SEMINAR

Tuesday, 16 April 2019 at 10:00,
ICTP, Stasi seminar room, Leonardo Building

Speaker: Edward Hughes (Google DeepMind)

Title:  Cooperative AI: Modelling and Resolving Complex Social Dilemmas 
using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Abstract:
Social dilemmas are ubiquitous in the world of human social 
interactions. The human ability to solve complex spatially and 
temporally extended social dilemmas is a key hallmark of our 
intelligence. Conversely, the cumulative nature of social tasks may 
provide an automatic path towards increasingly powerful cognitive 
abilities, under appropriate constraints. In this talk, I will argue for 
the ubiquity of social dilemmas from some simple principles, and show 
how complex spatially and temporally extended dilemmas may be solved by 
including appropriate inductive biases in state-of-the-art deep 
reinforcement learning agents. This approach simultaneously advances the 
fields of behavioural economics and artificial intelligence. I shall end 
with an outlook on how these fields might interact more closely in the 
future, both to improve our understanding of multi-agent dynamics in 
human society, and to construct generally intelligent artificial systems.

Everyone interested is most welcome to attend!

-- 
Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail: qls at ictp.it