2021 Quarterly Roundtable #3

hello everyone welcome back to the active inference lab welcome to our second semester today it's august 3rd 2021 so it's two cubed i guess nice date stephen please don't double or mute um welcome everyone we're really happy that you're joining us today in the active inference lab we're a participatory online lab that is communicating learning and practicing applied active inference you can find us at the links that are here on this page this is recorded in an archived live stream so please provide us with feedback so that we can be improving on our work all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here and we'll be following video etiquette for live streams with muting if there's noise in the background and raising our hand when we're ready to speak today in our third quarterly round table we're going to go over the goals and provide sort of an overview on the lab itself then we're going to go into updates for each of the three organizational units of the lab which are the dot edu dot coms and dot tools and uh give some updates as well as talk about how people can get involved with each of those sections of the lab so we'll start with our goals maybe while i do some little tweak on the stream alex do you want to go ahead on this website slide uh no please go ahead oh sure well this is our website activeinference.org and if you go there now you'll see it looking much like this as well as providing a lot more information as far as links to follow us on and forms you can fill out but the goal of active inference lab is to produce cutting edge research and enable real-world applications of active inference so that's our inference side and our action side we're learning by doing and we're doing it about active inference so if you want to read more information about that check out the website to provide kind of a architectural overlay for the active inference lab this figure shows oh let me uh yeah this figure shows how the different organizational units that are internal to our lab are related to the interfaces and to external communities so i'll give an overview and then anyone can raise their hand and give a thought on it the three organizational units within the lab that we're going to be talking more about today are dot edu dot tools and dot coms and that's our internal states then at the interfaces that's where we have interactions with external entities so for example this live stream is a production of dot-coms it's right on the interface between the internal and the external states of our lab and it interfaces out with broader communities so those are people who are learning active inference or curious about applying active inference or just what it is as well as all kinds of communities that may or may not realize that they're adjacent to active inference dot coms also reaches out to other groups and explores how active inference might play a role in their work and in edu the production on the interface is really the maintenance of the body of knowledge which again we'll be talking more about soon but we take a sort of systems engineering approach to diagramming our own activities and also to working internally and externally any thoughts on that yeah scott yeah i think the the value of structuring the uh research enterprise and the interaction enterprise in a way that reflects the content is absolutely superb that's something that um living the and breathing the active inference i think is really going to be instrumental as the i guess i'll call it the movement grows there's a lot of desire for deep risking out there and there's a lot of appeal in different areas banking food system security a lot of areas were starting to introduce the concept and having us organize the lab in that way um really walking the walk i think is is really terrific and speaks to the um flexibility and strength of the framing in a bunch of two different organizational constructs so i think that's something that's from the start was very wise…