Livestreams

Check out all Active Inference Institute videos on YouTube or Odysee, or check out the interactive list of all past and upcoming livestreams. 

A small selection of videos are listed below, based around “Active Inference and....” different topics. This is just a preliminary sampling or sorting, so if you are interested in contributing or learning more, please get in touch.

Active Inference and....

Free Energy Principle & Bayesian Mechanics

• Livestream #049 on “A Worked Example of the Bayesian Mechanics of Classical Objects” (049.0 context video, 049.1 and 049.2 with author).

• Livestream #045 on “The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple” (045.0 context video, 045.1 and 045.2 with author).

• Livestream #026 Bayesian Mechanics for Stationary Processes (026.0 context video, 026.1 and 026.2 with author).

Machine Learning

• Livestream #052 on “Geometric Methods for Sampling, Optimisation, Inference and Adaptive Agents” (052.0 context video, 052.1 and 052.2 with author).

• Livestream #051 on “Canonical neural networks perform active inference“ (051.0 context video, 051.1 and 051.2 with author).

Computational modeling

• ModelStream #007 on pymdp, python package for Active Inference generative models (007.1 and 007.2 walkthrough videos).

• ModelStream #001 on “A step-by-step tutorial on active inference and its application to empirical data“ (001.1, 001.2, 001.3, 001.4)

• GuestStream #024.1 on “Explainable and Reliable AI” with Stephen Grossberg

Psychology

• Livestream #046 on “Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology” (046.0 context video, 046.1 and 046.2 with author).

• GuestStream #025.1 with Brett Anderson on “Autistic-Like Traits and Positive Schizotypy as Diametric Specializations of the Predictive Mind“

Philosophy

• Livestream #036 “Modelling ourselves: what the free energy principle reveals about our implicit notions of representation” (036.0 context video, 036.1 and 036.2 with author).

• Livestream #035 on “A tale of two architectures free energy, its models, and modularity” (035.0 context video, 035.1 and 035.2 with author).

• GuestStream #027.1 with John Vervaeke

Biology

• Livestream #050 on “Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control” (050.0 context video, 050.1 and 050.2 with author).

• Livestream #044 on “Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Synchrony“ (044.0 context video, 044.1 and 044.2 with authors).

• Livestream #039.0 on “Morphogenesis as Bayesian inference: A variational approach to pattern formation and control in complex biological systems”  (039.0 context video, 039.1 and 039.2 with author).

• Livestream #038 on “The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference” (038.0 context video, 038.1 and 038.2 discussions).

• Livestream #029 on “Active Inferants: An Active Inference Framework for Ant Colony Behavior” (029.0 context video, 029.1 and 029.2 with author).

Sociology

• Livestream #053 on “Snakes and Ladders in Paleoanthropology & To copy or not to copy…“ (053.0 context video, 053.1 and 053.2 with authors).

• Livestream #048 on “Communication as Socially Extended Active Inference: An Ecological Approach to Communicative Behavior” (048.0 context video, 048.1 and 048.2 with author).

• Livestream #047 on “Enactive-Dynamic Social Cognition and Active Inference” and “Active Inference and Abduction” (047.0 context video, 047.1 and 047.2 with author).

• GuestStream #035.1 with Jordan Hall & Matthew Pirkowski

• GuestStream #030.1 on “The Human Governance Problem: Complex Systems and the Limits of Human Cognition” with Kyrtin Atreides

Quantum 

• Livestream #040 on “A free energy principle for generic quantum systems” (040.0 context video, 040.1 and 040.2 with authors).

• Livestream #017 on “Information flow in context-dependent hierarchical Bayesian inference” (017.0 context video, 017.1 and 017.2 with authors).

Robotics

• Livestream #042 on “Robot navigation as hierarchical active inference”  (042.0 context video, 042.1 and 042.2 with authors).

• Applied Active Inference Symposium on “Robotics” from 2022 (direct link to Program)