2024 Quarterly Roundtable #2

All right, hello and welcome. It's June 28th, 2024. We're here in quarterly roundtable number two for this year. Welcome to the Active Inference Institute. We're a participatory online institute that is communicating, learning, and practicing applied active inference. Find us at some of the links here. This is recorded in an archived live stream. Please provide feedback so we can improve our work. All backgrounds and perspectives are welcome and we'll follow video etiquette for live streams. And also I'll show this new slide with some nice stable links that will be good signposts and stable ones too. So we're in our second quarterly roundtable of the year. There's going to be three main sections. First, institute updates. Then we'll go to the two organizational units and talk about project scale updates. And then look a little bit towards the second half of 2024. First though, anyone who wants to unmute and just go ahead and introduce. Say hi and anything else you want to begin with. I'll break the ice. Hi, I'm Blue. I am really excited at all of the things that the institute has accomplished this quarter. The fellows program, the partnerships, and our upcoming philanthropy program, TBD. More later. I'll go next. I'm John Boyk, one of the new fellows this year. So excited to be joining the institute in that capacity. And I guess there's more later. I'm Jean-Francois Cloutier. I'm also a research fellow, part of that first batch. And I'll echo John's words that I'm very excited to be in this role and hope that I will be able to provide some good value. Hi, I'm Andrew. I'm an intern with the institute. I've been involved with a few different projects on and off over the past maybe year, especially helping facilitate the textbook group whenever I can. Looking forward to that coming back up in a couple of weeks. And yeah, looking forward to seeing the rest of the developments with the institute, seeing it grow. Okay. Is that good next? Yeah, real quick. Yes, my name is Holly Grimm. And I'm a second member of the scientific advisory board for the second year. I'm working with the journal project with Alex. And right now, I'm kind of building a set of utilities in Python and Russ to help transcribe all of Daniel's amazing YouTube videos and sessions and trying to, so we can eventually create a way of using retrieval augmented generation, creating an LLM agent or chat with all of these sessions that have been recorded. So, thanks. Alex Grimm. Okay, let me jump in. I'm Alex, one of the officers of the institute, also into journal project and some hours. So great to see everyone. Let's have a this round table. Awesome. Okay. First, going over some institute scale updates on the digital infrastructure side, as the stable links are kind of the tip of the iceberg of, we'll be looking and have been making some updates to the accessibility and usability of the different services at the institute. One of those stable links will take you to ecosystem.activeinference.institute. And at this page, which again, the endpoint may vary, we'll look to develop and really communicate more about what is the Active Inference Institute? What is the ecosystem? How are they articulated? How have they begun and changed through time structurally and all these different ways? And so one useful piece of information at that resource is kind of like a menu or kind of continents of the ecosystem. And another exciting announcement is that we'll be doing an updating process on our 2023 institute slash ecosystem paper. So it'll be very fun. There will be a lot of multimedia and collective exploration and refinements of big, impactful visions and things that people are motivated and excited and already working on. And so to be able to clarify that within the second half of the year in a certain way and also understand what what is the role of different functionalities in the ecosystem at the institute. So this will be a fun process in the second half of the year that…