Cognitive Computing vs. LLMs (w/ Mahault Albarracin)

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/research Spatial Web Foundation: https://spatialwebfoundation.org/ 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=copyLink Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com PayPal: https://paypal.me/rsampod?country.x=AU&locale.x=en_AU --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le SFP: 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://x.com/trsam97 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/4/476 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137231222481 https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/4/303 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28719-0_7 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-023-09638-w https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5299/Active-InferenceThe-Free-Energy-Principle-in-Mind https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315889634-21/prospects-naturalized-phenomenology-jeffrey-yoshimi https://iwaiworkshop.github.io/ {Music Used} "Supapao - Can't Fall In Love" is under a Free To Use YouTube license https://soundcloud.com/supapao Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/VZkFJAb_gx4?si=J6AwKLAmikAzoqHj Chill Lofi Hiphop - 'Breath' by l33 is under a Free To Use YouTube license SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/nocopyrightlofi/no-copyright-chill-lofi-hiphop-breath-by-l33 --------------------------------------- If the ideas I discuss in this channel 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 trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.