I took a picture of my current philosophical personality.

Yesterday was my last day of working at Google. Perhaps this comes as surprise to you twitter folks, as I haven't widely announced that I left academia to try something new. Here's what I learned in 9 months as a Data Analyst who (temporarily) left Astronomy for Big Tech. 1/n

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 “On the Map-Territory Fallacy Fallacy,” by dalton, Karl Friston, and yours truly (that’s right—you read the title correctly) 1/10 arxiv.org/abs/2208.06924

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 Phenomenology meets computational modelling in the active inference tradition: “Mapping Husserlian phenomenology onto active inference” by Mahault Albarracin, Riddhi J. Pitliya, Jeff Yoshimi, and yours truly arxiv.org/abs/2208.09058 1/5

You what now? Jordan Peterson and Karl Friston ... not quite sure I'm ready for this (in fact I'm pretty sure I'm not) 😶 youtube.com/watch?v=feS1zu…

🚨 New preprint 🚨 “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things,” on the path integral formulation of the FEP, and kinds of particles—written with Karl Friston, Lancelot Da Costa, dalton, Conor Heins, Grigorios Pavliotis, Thomas Parr arxiv.org/abs/2210.12761 1/18

🌱 John Ash 🌳 Matthew Pirkowski Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson Evan McMullen, ἰατρόμαντις of Slack Good question. Prediction errors are unsigned divergences between predictions and outcomes: one can be more or less wrong, but that doesn't track goodness or badness per se. But we've argued hierarchical active inference models can account for valence: direct.mit.edu/neco/article/3… 1/2

Check out our new paper, to appear at NeurIPS. We show that DNNs are becoming progressively *less* aligned with human perception as their ImageNet accuracy increases. Ignore the elections, Elon, and FTX for a moment — this is important! serre-lab.github.io/Harmonization/

🚨Preprint alert🚨 Formalizing resilience with active inference. A 🧵 on our new paper, “Resilience and active inference” by Mark Miller, Riddhi J. Pitliya, q(Alex Kiefer | everything else), Jonas Mago, Claire Gorman, Karl Friston and Maxwell Ramstead. psyarxiv.com/vehq2 1/6

My book **The Entangled Brain** by MIT Press is out and provides an introduction to the brain to non-specialists while embracing the complexity of how brains help bring about behaviors. I'll be posting 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 in the coming 1-2 weeks

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One of the most convincing and attention attracting opening to a math lesson —Thomas Garrity Williams, «On mathematical maturity» [full video: buff.ly/3EIch6N]

New paper in Science today on playing the classic negotiation game "Diplomacy" at a human level, by connecting language models with strategic reasoning! Our agent engages in intense and lengthy dialogues to persuade other players to follow its plans. This was really hard! 1/5

Karl Friston had this to say about joining VERSES to lead the VERSES Research team as Chief Scientist: "I am delighted and honoured to join VERSES. I have seldom met such a friendly, focused, committed, and right-minded group of colleagues." verses.io/press-2/vers-k… 1/2

🚀🚨🤖 Introducing the VERSES Research AI white paper 🚀🚨🤖 Short thread on "Designing Ecosystems of Intelligence from First Principles" 🧵 1/13 arxiv.org/abs/2212.01354

Some cool new ideas about composition and replay from Zeb Kurth Nelson et al.. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm speechless. Not peer-reviewed yet but a submitted paper. The 'presented images' were shown to a group of humans. The 'reconstructed images' were the result of an fMRI output to Stable Diffusion. In other words, #stablediffusion literally read people's minds. Source 👇

#IWAI2024 family. 🧠🧠🧠🧠 Thanks so much for your research and your presence! Full house. thanks @oxford, thanks Prof. Friston! Thanks organizers :) / and sponsors!

Great report by Angie Voyles Askham on evolution of reward prediction error theory of dopamine. Balanced perspectives. Wish it covered dopamine's role in reducing uncertainty (re: rewards, navigation, etc), which accounts of "rethink[ing of] what the brain cares about reinforcing."

😎Video of the highlights of the IWAI conference in #Oxford Sept 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=vK0X-j… #Neuroscience #Robotics #AI #MachineLearning #CognitiveScience Thanks Riddhi J. Pitliya