Nathan presents research on social expectations and Peter joins an art panel at ALife2024
Peter Lewis on the ALife Art Panel (top), Nathan Lloyd presenting at ALife (bottom)Dr. Peter R. Lewis and Ph.D. Candidate Nathan Lloyd attended the International Conference for Artificial Life (ALife) which brings together researchers invested in the synthesis and simulation of living systems.
On July 24th, Nathan presented work in the ALife & Society special session entitled Incorporating Social Expectations into the Expectation Event Calculus. This paper bring theory from social psychology to enhance the intelligence of AI to practice - demonstrating novel agents that can model and reason using social expectations, prerequisites to social norms.
Later in the week, Peter, taking up an invited role as a panelist for the ALife Art Panel, discussed how bringing art and science together offers us new ways to reflect on our work; enabling us to ask what is meant by “progress” in different communities and why, and to better understand how we react to the aesthetics of blob-like things natural, artificial, and imagined.