<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">* LOD-ACAIN 2023 Keynote Speakers and Lecturers - from Deep Learning to Generative Artificial Intelligence *<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Friend/Colleague,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">it follows the list of the LOD-ACAIN 2023 Keynote Speakers and Lecturers:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">9^th<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">–<b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>LOD 2023</b></span></font></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://lod2023.icas.cc/" style="color:fuchsia"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">https://lod2023.icas.cc/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"></span></font></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:fuchsia;font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:lod@icas.cc" style="color:fuchsia"><font face="arial, sans-serif">lod@icas.cc</font></a></span></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt">and</span><b style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></font></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">3^rd<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">–<b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>ACAIN 2023</b></span></font></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://acain2023.icas.cc/" style="color:fuchsia"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">https://acain2023.icas.cc/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"></span></font></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:acain@icas.cc" style="color:fuchsia"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">acain@icas.cc</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></b></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">from Deep Learning to Generative Artificial Intelligence</font></span></b></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">One Conference, a Course and a Symposium in a unique Event</font></span></i></b></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></b></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">September 22 – 26, 2023</font></span></p><p class="gmail-CorpoA" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none;text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Wordsworth Hotel & Spa <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>– Grasmere, Lake District, England, UK</font></span></i></p></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-CorpoA" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;color:black;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://lod2023.icas.cc/keynote/" style="color:fuchsia"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">LOD 2023 Keynote Speakers</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext;border:none"></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Gabriel Barth-Maron</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">, DeepMind, London, UK</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">“Multimodal Foundation Models”</font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Anthony G. Cohn</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">, University of Leeds, UK & The Alan Turing Institute, UK</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">“Evaluating the Commonsense Reasoning abilities of Foundation Models”</font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Sven Giesselbach</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">, Fraunhofer Institute<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">–</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>IAIS, Germany</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">“Foundation Models”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">“GPT”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">“OpenGPT-X and Application and Practical Training of Large-Scale Language Models”</font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://acain2023.icas.cc/course-lecturers/" style="color:fuchsia"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">ACAIN 2023 Keynote Lecturers</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Karl Friston</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">, University College London, UK</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 1:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“Deep inference”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 2:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“Active inference and artificial curiosity”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Kenneth Harris</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">, University College London, UK</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 1:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“The large-scale structure of neural activity in the neocortex”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 2:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“How cortical population activity relates to transcriptomic cell types”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 3:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“Geometrical constraints on high-dimensional population codes”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Rosalyn Moran</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">, King’s College London, UK</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 1:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“The Free Energy Principle: A Neurobiological Generative AI? 1/2”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 2:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“The Free Energy Principle: A Neurobiological Generative AI? 2/2”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Edmund T. Rolls</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">, University of Warwick, UK</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 1:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“Biologically plausible computational neuroscience: memory and navigation”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 2:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“Biologically plausible computational neuroscience: emotion and depression”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Michael Wooldridge</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">, University of Oxford, UK</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 1:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“Connected AI. Basically an introduction to the field of multi-agent systems – how AI views interacting AI systems”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture 2:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>“Social Intelligence and AI. A much more speculative lecture about the role that social reasoning plays in intelligence, and might play in AI”</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><i><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://lod2023.icas.cc/registration/">https://lod2023.icas.cc/registration/</a><i><br></i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://acain2023.icas.cc/registration/">https://acain2023.icas.cc/registration/</a><br></font></span></p></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">See you in the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">idyllic </span>Lake District - England in September!</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">         Alex, Santa &  Sarah - LOD ACAIN 2023 Organizing Committee.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>