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From: Yoshua Bengio <yoshua.bengio@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:59 PM
Subject: Fwd: MILA Teatalk about Robotic Priors?
To: Lisa Labo <lisa_labo@iro.umontreal.ca>, lisa_teatalks@iro.umontreal.ca


Hi all,

We have several visitors following the summer school. In particular Rico Jonschkowski will give a tea-talk this Friday at 2pm, rm 3195, on learning state representations for robotics.

-- Yoshua

Title:
Learning State Representations with Robotic Priors -- And Why Machine Learning Needs Robotics

abstract:
In this talk, I will present a roboticist's perspective on representation learning. The talk will consist of two parts: In the first part, I will present our work on learning state representations with robotic priors, which are priors about how robots interact with the physical world. The second part will be more philosophical and, I hope, controversial. I will try to extrapolate from the first part and explain why machine learning needs robotics to scale towards AI.