March 2024 Newsletter 🌹🎪🎺 Active Inference Institute

We just provided our first quarterly roundtable update for 2024 today — Check it out to see where things are at, and where they are heading.

Read on for more updates & projects for your investigation and participation.

Institute scale

• The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) met yesterday, discussing forthcoming Research Fellows and Partnerships programs, among other topics.
• Participation at the Institute is through projects of various types. See the contact information for each active project to get involved, and email [Contact the Institute](site-contact) with any questions.
• We have an open form for proposals for projects to be hosted at the Institute. If you would like to facilitate a new project please complete the Prepare form.
• Project Measurement forms are for individual, team, and organizational-scale project updates. These updates can be from a project active at the Institute, or your own works/learnings/experiences from elsewhere in the Ecosystem.
• All work at the Institute remains fully volunteer (from beginning in 2021, on through now). During 2024 we expect and prefer to engage more fully in philanthropy (tax-exempt donation status still pending, contact us to provide financial support), and to start hiring employees.

EduActive unit

There are currently 10 active projects in the EduActive organizational unit.

Institute projects

• The Parr, Pezzulo, Friston 2022 Active Inference Textbook Group is active in Cohort 5 and Cohort 6 — please see here for more information and the Textbook Group registration form, or check out our group’s shared niche directly.
• We had many great livestreams this month. Here are just a few highlights:
• Insights episode 14 with Alex Keifer
• Insights episode 15 with Michael Levin & Franz Kuchling
• Insights episode 16 with Wanja Wiese
• Insights episode 17 with Mark Solms
• MorphStream 3.1 with Anand Subramoney

Ecosystem projects

• There are 6 Education projects in the Ecosystem, ranging from the development of Sanjeev Namjoshi’s Fundamentals of Active Inference textbook, to Active Inference games and continuing learning on Social Sciences.

ReInference unit

There are currently 9 active projects in the ReInference organizational unit.

Institute projects

• The RxInfer.jl learning group continues to make exciting progress, understanding this software package & developing generative models. We look forward to a livestream with the package developers next week, on “Building a Drone with RxInfer.jl”.

Ecosystem projects

• There are 6 Research projects in the Ecosystem, including Symbolic cognitive robotics, InferAnt Colony modeling, Soil Biology, and more! Check out these works, and get in touch with the facilitators.

Feedback & Engagement

If you have any Active Inference-related updates (for possible inclusion in future newsletters), please send in a Measurement to share with the Institute.

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Let us know via email to [Contact the Institute](site-contact) if you have any other ideas or questions.

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