2025 Quarterly Roundtable #1

Hello, welcome everyone. It's March 28th, 2025, and we're in quarterly roundtable number one. We are a participatory online institute that is communicating, learning, and practicing applied active inference. You can find us at the following platforms and links. This is a recorded and archived live stream. Please provide feedback so we can improve our work. All backgrounds and perspectives welcome. Video etiquette for live streams is as follows. Head over to active inference institute to see our static page and links from there. Take a look at this slide for a lot of stable short links and entry points into different activities. Okay, we will have a lot to talk about today in this roundtable. We will talk about institute projects, then ecosystem projects, then talk about some speculative designs for 2025. And then at the end, we will check the live chat for questions and comments. First though, let us introduce ourselves. So I'm Daniel. I'm the president and one of the co-founders of the institute. And I'm here with Alexandra. Greetings. I am the VP of the institute and a new officer starting in 2025 working along with Daniel to further the goals of the institute. Cool. Okay. So let us head into it. And again, looking forward to people's comments written in live chat, which we'll get to at the end. Let's start with some updates at the institute scale. And begin as befits the year and moments with some generative visualizations. So while this from 2023 and versioned since provides more of a structural anatomical view. Here with the a few quick prompts, we see a bit more of the pie policy selection, planning as inference, all that good stuff happening amidst a thriving, vibrant ecosystem with kind of Dolly-esque and graphical models, rivers, nature, different kinds of synergetic structures, geodesics, flowers and trees, life, tables, chairs, people, all that happening in the ecosystem. So there's going to be a lot of nitty gritty at times, but this is the bigger picture and vision that together with the institute as just one player in a broader ecosystem, we can make some awesome things happen. 2025.active inference institute is kind of a history in real time page. It's a good entry point nested under history page. And it archives what's happening this year, what is upcoming. And as the months fly by, we move them down to the bottom of the page. And in doing so document what's happening as it happens. 2025. or others, you will find yourself moved into this living the platform document, which has many, many, many nested pages. It can be a lot. So a couple tips. First off, you can download a document. You can go to print and document, export it. You could upload it to your favorite perplexity or similar service to have a direct chat with it. And that chat affordance is also provided at the Institute and Ecosystem page. So you can have that kind of interactive discussion with the documentation. And at a top level, that document, which thankfully and gladly is in the most updated shape that it's ever been, contains pretty much one section on the Institute, Pi, and then another main section on the ecosystem itself. So within the Institute part, you can learn who and what are we? What happened here? Why it's important to support it? Mission, vision, values, principles, and projects. All these different things that have happened and are happening. And then out in the ecosystem, we'll continue to do our best to curate at the topical and at the project scale, what is happening out there. And in doing so, provide unique services for people who want to ask questions like, what is the status of active inference and robotics or law or economics or society or category theory? Totally concise, valid, relevant questions that we look forward to having people, as with all activities, step into stewarding in this fractalized way, these important domains so that with stable links and reference, there's an entry point that's kind of always welcoming, alignable, and…