Principles of intrinsic motivations in biological and artificial agents (PIMBAA)

Inviting all Curious Agents to attend our workshop!

The goal of PIMBAA is to bring together experts in intrinsic motivation across cognitive sciences, neuroscience, developmental science, robotics and AI. Each of these fields uses reinforcement learning (RL) to understand, model, or generate good decisions.

Concurrent work across fields is beginning to show that the objectives that give rise to good decisions are richer than maximizing extrinsic reward. However, long-standing disciplinary divides mean that there is currently a zoo of different intrinsic motivation frameworks and little in the way of organizing principles that would be useful for understanding natural agents or building better artificial ones.

Because these experts all attend RLDM, this workshop is taking advantage of this rare opportunity to coalesce the community around a core understanding of the principles of intrinsic motivations.

Join us in Dublin!