2020 Review and 2021 Directions

hello everyone this is the active inference live stream i'm daniel friedman today it is december 30th 2020. it is active live active influence live stream 12.0 and this is uh hopefully going to be a recap on 2020 and a look to 2021 it is a doubly auspicious episode number because the digits of 012.0 rearrange to 2021 and also the clock is striking midnight so there's no paper 12. we'll start with paper 13 next year welcome to the active inference lab everyone we are an experiment in online team communication learning and practice related to active inference you can find us at our website twitter email youtube or keybase team and username this is a recorded and an archived live stream so please provide us with feedback so that we can improve on our work you can say something in the live chat or you can leave a comment all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here and as far as video etiquette for live streams mute if there's noise in the background raise your hands so we can hear it from everyone and we'll use respectful speech behavior today in active inference live stream 12.0 the goal is really to close out 2020 and look to 2021 for all that that means of course just like all the dot zeros it's a context and an introduction to some ideas it's not a review or a final word the punchline is that 2020 hindsight looking back on it is 2020 foresight and that's all we have so let's figure out how to make the best of our 2020 hindsight so that we can have 2020 foresight here are the sections of today's video first we're going to talk about what the active inference lab is becoming in terms of what did happen for each of the three projects in 2020 and what will happen for each of the three projects in 2021 then we'll go through each of the active inference live streams a single slide per number 1 through 11 and just recap one figure from each of the papers because it's a good way to just look at all the different topics we've heard about and remember how many interesting perspectives and especially beginners perspectives we heard along the way because we're all learning here and we all learn so much this year then i'll raise up a few great points of feedback that were raised by the community and we always welcome people to leave comments and suggestions and if they want to be anonymous they can let that be known or otherwise we're just really looking to rise up what people are saying and wanting to learn and then let's just figure out how we can make those things happen and they're both really good suggestions we'll talk about then uh there'll be more uh just sort of a grab bag at the end with some perspectives on 2020 and 21 moving forward so in the upcoming year there will be a lot to expect and work on together be sure to get in touch if you want to participate or get involved so for today's roadmap instead of the sections of a paper because there are no sections for this paper we're going to be inferring back on 2020 and we're going to be actively moving into 2021. so whenever you're listening to us certainly it's either at the same time or later than me and that means that you're in 2021 or later or about to be rolling into it so how can we look to the past the present and the future how can we understand where we've been to understand where we're going in this example with a background picture of the rear view mirror of a car it's like you're driving the car forward but you need to know what's behind you you need to know what's around you so all of these things are important spatially temporally starting with the part about the active inference lab uh this was really something awesome that emerged during 2020 with the special help and collaboration and really was a true colony effort by alex yvonne sasha rj and just several other people who really made it happen this year with active inference so big appreciation to them and with the more people we've had participating and increased focus on formal structures as well as…