SCIoI Distinguished Speaker Series: Peter Dayan (Tübingen)
Organized by Cluster Science of Intelligence, TU and HU Berlin
Peter Dayan, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics - Tübingen
https://www.mpg.de/12309357/biologische-kybernetik-dayan
Host: Henning Sprekeler
Moderator: Robert Tjarko Lange
Where? On Zoom. Please contact: scioi-info-join@lists.tu-berlin.de
Abstract: Risk occupies a central role in both the theory and practice of decision-making. Although it is deeply implicated in many conditions involving dysfunctional behavior and thought, modern theoretical approaches to understanding and mitigating risk in either one-shot or sequential settings, which are derived largely from finance and economics, have yet to permeate fully the fields of neural reinforcement learning and computational psychiatry. I will discuss the use of dynamic and static versions of one prominent approach, namely conditional value-at-risk, to examine both the nature of risk avoidant choices, encompassing such things as justified gambler’s fallacies, and the optimal planning that can lead to consideration of such choices, with implications for offline, ruminative, thinking. This is joint work with Chris Gagne.
Organized by Cluster Science of Intelligence, TU and HU Berlin
