The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) means many things to many people (see Table 1). (...) One meaning of ‘AI’ that seems often forgotten these days is one that played a crucial role in the birth of cognitive science as an interdiscipline in the 1970s and ’80s." 2/n

This is NOT what AI was about "What can researchers do if they suspect that their manuscripts have been peer reviewed using artificial intelligence (AI)?"

This -> "We have deprived the youth of the joys of discovery, the thrill to feel yourself close to an answer, and the wonderful, rewarding feeling of a moment of lucidity after hard work."

Perhaps of interest to some of you. "Quick societal adoption of tools often reflects a demand driven by business interests or culture. Reflecting on generative AI, especially Large Language Models, I believe there is a strong lifestyle generation component that nurtures.. cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...

Ablation study and resulting optimal architecture that considerably improves recent research on CNN-Hebbian learning integration with competition mechanisms. with @julian-jn.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Surprise, surprise. Here we go. “The European Commission is proposing a pause to parts of its landmark artificial intelligence laws amid intense pressure from Big Tech companies and the US government.” www.ft.com/content/af6c...

✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿 Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper: Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

A quick summary for busy people: We propose a mathematical framework for learning representations by extracting the algebra of transformations of worlds from the agent's perspective. 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Some pictures of this enlightening event organised by @hcid.city and @citai.bsky.social

Available open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am pleased to announce that this paper has been accepted for publication in Artificial Intelligence (AIJ)! 😊 arxiv.org/abs/2310.01536

New version available. The readability of the paper has been greatly improved. Enjoy! arxiv.org/abs/2310.01536

Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987. No? Well, now you do 😌 Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...

Inaugural Lecture of the Margaret Boden Lecture series at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNr2...

Sad news. RIP Maggie Boden. Maggie was an AI pioneer and a truly interdisciplinary scholar, integrating in her work philosophy, psychology, and computer science -worth emphasising in an era of massive, data-hungry GenAI architectures. 1/n staff.sussex.ac.uk/news/article...

You are invited to a one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity. Abstracts (200 words) + bios (100 words) due: 10 July 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to rethink comics and AI with a multidisciplinary community! #CFP: comicsandai.org #ComicsStudies

#CitAI_Seminars Tuesday, 22-04 (Zoom, 16:00 BST) Marin Lujak Artificial Intelligence Research Group on 'Scalable, efficient and distributed multi-agent coordination of automated agricultural vehicle fleets' If interested, pls get in touch with the organisers. More info cit-ai.net/seminars.html

The EU has just announced a plan to establish Europe’s leadership in AI. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/a... Five key points: 1. Creating a solid computing infrastructure: strengthening the network of AI Factories and establishing resource-efficient Gigafactories 1/n

New preprint with @corinacatarau.bsky.social and @ealonso.bsky.social from @citai.bsky.social: A representational framework for learning and encoding structurally enriched trajectories in complex agent environments arxiv.org/abs/2503.13194

AI in health security: 1- LLMs to speed up qualitative analysis in public health research. 2- AI to detect foodborne illness outbreaks. 3- AI to make public health guidance more consistent. ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/14/h...

Congratulations to Rich Sutton and Andrey Barto! www.acm.org/media-center...

And the Turing Award 2025 goes to Sutton and Barto! Congrats! www.wired.com/story/pionee...

New preprint from @citai.bsky.social and wonderful Julian @julian-jn.bsky.social

1. 🧠Excited to share my published paper "Advancing the Biological Plausibility and Efficacy of Hebbian Convolutional Neural Networks" with @emp1.bsky.social. Available from: arxiv.org/abs/2501.17266

An advance of a paper that will soon be available in ArXiv. All merit to my wonderful student @julian-jn.bsky.social ! I hope you enjoy it. We present an optimal architecture that significantly enhances recent research aimed at integrating Hebbian learning with competition mechanisms and CNNs. ➡️

Article fresh off the print (no paywall)! The tl;dr is in the quoted thread. We advance a measure of replication distance to capture differences btw an original study & its replications. We also discuss how statistics needs to go beyond ideal assumptions to serve science better. #metasci #sts #stat

Published version, here: van Rooij, I., Guest, O., et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav 7, 616–636 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...

✨📝 Special issue “What Makes a Good Theory? Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, edited by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @devezer.bsky.social @jcskewes.bsky.social Sashank Varma & Todd Wareham in journal Computational Brain & Behavior. link.springer.com/journal/4211... 🧪

Three Permanent/Full-time Lectureships in Computer Science are available at City St. Georges, University of London. More information can be found here: cit-ai.net/Academic-Job... To apply, visit www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

At CitAI, we are particularly interested in applicants with strong research expertise in the development and implementation of deep learning architectures and algorithms for image and sequential analysis. Join us!

Three Permanent/Full-time Lectureships in Computer Science are available at City St. Georges, University of London. More information can be found here: cit-ai.net/Academic-Job... To apply, visit www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

EU probes TikTok after surprise win in Romania election EU regulators have ordered TikTok to retain data related to Romania's presidential election. Bucharest has released intelligence linking Moscow to surprise pro-Russian winner Calin Georgescu […]

Please join us for the last 2024 #CitAI_Seminars! Alberto Fernandez, from the AI Research Group at URJC in Madrid, will discuss the hot topic of Value-aligned decision-making. Please get in touch with @emp1.bsky.social or the organisers at cit-ai.net/seminars.html for a Zoom link/pass.

Please join us for the last 2024 #CitAI_Seminars! Alberto Fernandez, from the AI Research Group at URJC in Madrid, will discuss the hot topic of Value-aligned decision-making. Please get in touch with @emp1.bsky.social or the organisers at cit-ai.net/seminars.html for a Zoom link/pass.

With the newly instituted City St George’s, University of London, CitAI, the Artificial Intelligence Research Centre of the former City, University of London, has relaunched as the broader CitAI City St George’s AI Hub. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve... cit-ai.net

PhD scholarship 'Putting Artificial Intelligence into Social Context: Developing Artificial Intelligence Agents that Enhance Cooperation within Organisations' application deadline has been extended to 1st Dec 2024. HOME candidates only (sorry!) cit-ai.net/PhD-Scholars...

Early announcement. Stay tuned! 'Advancing the Biological Plausibility and Efficacy of Hebbian Convolutional Neural Network'

With the newly instituted City St George’s, University of London, CitAI, the Artificial Intelligence Research Centre of the former City, University of London, has relaunched as the broader CitAI City St George’s AI Hub. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve... cit-ai.net

Oh my goodness! Unbelievably loud and clear. Physics Nobel Prize has been awarded to John J Hopfield and Geoffrey E Hinton for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks" www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...

Oh like clearview, let alone some proportion of teenagers, never would have thought of it. Please don’t platform science shaming.

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We are excited to announce the AISB Symposium on “The Nature, Risks and Potential of Artificial Intelligence" Please send us your abstracts! cit-ai.net/AISB-Symposi... David Gamez Brian Ball Alex Grzankowski Stefan Sarkadi David Tena Cucala Elliott Thornley @ealonso.bsky.social @emp1.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the AISB Symposium on “The Nature, Risks and Potential of Artificial Intelligence" Please send us your abstracts! cit-ai.net/AISB-Symposi... David Gamez Brian Ball Alex Grzankowski Stefan Sarkadi David Tena Cucala Elliott Thornley @ealonso.bsky.social @emp1.bsky.social

Wonderful to have participated in THE x Digital Science webinar on “Addressing evolving challenges to research security in the age of AI”. Full recording available at www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/addre... @citai.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social

The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers: cognitionandculture.net/index.html

"the Convention provides for a common approach to ensure that activities within the lifecycle of AI systems are compatible with human rights, democracy and the rule of law, while enabling innovation and trust. " digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...