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Speaker: Karim Jerbi, University of Montreal, Canada.
Title: From Critical Brains to Creative Machines: Neuro-AI Approaches to Consciousness and Generative Intelligence.
Abstract: Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming neuroscience—not only as a powerful toolkit for analyzing complex brain data, but also as a framework for building models of cognition itself. In this talk, I will present recent research from our lab (CoCo Lab) at the intersection of AI and cognitive neuroscience. I will first introduce the emerging field of Neuro-AI, highlighting how machine learning can help decode brain activity, model cognitive processes and generate new hypotheses about neural computation. I will then discuss how concepts from complexity science and criticality are opening new windows onto brain function, with a particular focus on psychostimulants and altered states of consciousness. Finally, time-permitting, I will turn to the creativity of generative AI, including our recent work comparing divergent creativity in large language models and humans. Together, these examples illustrate how computational approaches, brain imaging and AI can help us rethink intelligence, consciousness and creativity across brains and machines.
Objectives of the Al-Khwarizmi seminar: to share knowledge, problems, methods among researchers in applied mathematics from different backgrounds and countries.
Seminar details: the seminar occurs online every two weeks (Zoom link: https://ksu-hub.zoom.us/j/97753107489), with each talk lasting 50 minutes, followed by a 20-minute Q&A session.
Organizers: under the guidance of an international scientific committee, the webinar is led by researchers from Tunisian and Saudi universities (see our committee members).
Flexibility and collaboration: we aim at fostering collaborations and potential research projects or publications among researchers from all over the world, thus everyone is welcome to suggest a talk by sending a message to any of these emails: rafik.aguech@ipeit.rnu.tn, nabil.gmati@enit.utm.tn, wissem.jedidi@fst.utm.tn, aalhammali@iau.edu.sa
Support: AGALab-Monastir, LAMSIN-Tunis, the Mediterranean Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and the Tunisian Mathematical Society.
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