Workshop PACEA-Flowers, Nov 15, 2022

Mini-workshop between the PACEA laboratory (University of Bordeaux) and the Flowers team at Inria.
The aim of the workshop is to discuss potential convergence of ideas between two scientific fields that rarely interact together: Artificial Intelligence (represented by the Flowers team) and Archeology (represented by the PACEA lab).
We believe that these two fields can mutually benefit from such an interdisciplinary interaction. In particular, they share some hypotheses on e.g. the role of environmental variability in the evolution of generalist behavior [1] ; as well as on the role of cultural knowledge in open-ended skill acquisition [2].
PACEA Lab: www.pacea.u-bo...
Flowers team: flowers.inria.fr/
[1] hal.archives-o...
[2] arxiv.org/abs/...
Talks:
00:00 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Flowers) -- Introduction on the Flowers team
25:10 Francesco d'Errico (PACEA) -- What we know and don't know about human cultural evolution over the last 300.000 years
1:15:55 Clément Moulin-Frier (Flowers) -- Introduction on the ORIGINS project (Inria Exploratory Action): Grounding AI in the origins of human behavior
1:59:40 Luc Doyon (PACEA) -- Pleistocene osseous technologies: Can AI help Archaeology in resolving key issues on cultural evolution dynamics in our lineage?
2:36:51 Daniel Pereira (PACEA) -- Contact networks 10,000 years ago in the western Mediterranean
3:16:40 Eleni Nisioti (Flowers) -- Computational experiments on the role of environmental and social dynamics in adaptability and cultural innovation
3:54:55 Tristan Karch (Flowers) -- Language as a cognitive tool to imagine goals in curiosity-driven exploration