2024 Quarterly Roundtable #4

Hello, welcome. It's December 19th, 2024. We're in our fourth quarterly roundtable for the year. So, welcome to the Active Inference Institute. We're a participatory online institute that is Communicating, Learning, and Practicing Applied Active Inference. This is recorded in an archive live stream, so please provide feedback and super chats, live chats, so we can improve our work. All backgrounds and perspectives are welcome and we'll be following video etiquette for live stream. Everything at the institute is participatory, so head over to activeinference.institute to get involved and check out our updated site. This slide has a lot of stable links, which you can go to as an entry point, and we'll always keep these stable links updated even as their underlying targets evolve, so that you can have some stable reference and entry points into it. Okay, this is our fourth quarterly roundtable of the year. It is close to the end of the year. We've done a quarterly roundtable every quarter since the beginning of 2021. So we're approaching 16, a tet of tets. Alex and Blue, co-officers of the year, would you like to say hello and anything else? Hi, happy 2024, happy end of 2024. I'm excited about all the things that the institute has done this year and about all the changes that are happening and transitions that we're looking forward next year. Hi, and this reminds me how it started. Now we are institute, but I remember how it was a comms group in just online format without even possibly knowing names or faces. So we are in the beginning of the year. But from the beginning, understand what active inference approach and principles could help us to grow into something great. Thank you. Yes, Teamcom 2020, active lab 21, institute 22. All right, let's continue on first at the institute scale. All right, one of the major highlights of this year being the second version snapshot release of the sort of keystone publication, active inference ecosystem and institute one way or the other. And the first version of this publication, we did also in a great collaborative team in 2023. This year, we dipped back in, we started with where we left off, as any updater would, and took it in a ton of different directions. Ecosystem.active inference institute is the entry point. And just to give a bit of the anatomy of the document and show a few of the pages, some of the nested memes for nested themes. Ecosystems. At the top level, this living documents or production has an abstract, a list of authors, a single page on active inference, a closing discussion, and two main body sections, one on the institute and one on the ecosystem. About the institute, the subsections include history, mission, vision, values and principles, our focus areas, some of our directions, strategy, the organization of the institute, communications, and other topics. About the organization. Under that, if you unfold that tick mark, you'll see the formal morphology. For example, the scientific advisory board, board of directors, officers, members, the organizational units, administrative functions, the eduactive education functions, the re-inference research functions, and then a variety of programs that we have at the institute, such as volunteer, internship, mentorship, so on. And some having begun in the beginning, others being incipient. In the institute project section, there's a roster of projects, different types, different stages, and other projects, different types of projects, different types of projects, different types of projects, and different types of projects. So, what is happening? What has happened? These are some of the things that have happened right very here. On the ecosystem side, the sections include the priorities and the challenge areas for the broader space, the fields, where people are really out there, applying active inference and adjacent techniques. We're starting to explore how we think about the development of the ecosystem, about how to curate…