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Mahault Albarracin is a PhD student at UQAM, Montréal, Québec, researching cognitive computing and social sciences. Mahault is Director of Research Strategy and Product Integration at VERSUS, a cognitive computing company. She is also an IEEE fellow, author, lecturer and has an MA in sexology. In this episode, we discuss the fundamental difference between LLMs and agents built on cognitive computing principles, AI agency, active inference AI, free energy principle, computational phenomenology and neo-materialism.You can find more of Mahault's work at https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KAxZtUIAAAAJ&hl=en and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahault-albarracin-1742bb153/Verses AI: https://www.verses.ai/researchSpatial Web Foundation: https://spatialwebfoundation.org/Watch the video version here.RSam Podcast #73--------------------------------------- Please consider financially supporting my work (ONLY if you have the means). Patreon: https://patreon.com/trsam?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkSubstack: https://rsampod.substack.com---------------------------------------{Podcast}YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSamSubstack: https://rsampod.substack.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1LeSFP: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rahul-samaranayake Website: https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media}https://substack.com/@trsam/https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/https://twitter.com/trsam97{Reference Links}https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/4/476https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137231222481https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/4/303https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28719-0_7https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-023-09638-whttps://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5299/Active-InferenceThe-Free-Energy-Principle-in-Mindhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315889634-21/prospects-naturalized-phenomenology-jeffrey-yoshimihttps://iwaiworkshop.github.io/{Music Used}"Supapao - Can't Fall In Love" is under a Free To Use YouTube license https://soundcloud.com/supapaoMusic powered by BreakingCopyright---------------------------------------If the ideas I discuss in this podcast evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/--------------------------------------- Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at [email protected], and we can sort it out.Thank you.
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