Cognitive Computing vs. LLMs (w/ Mahault Albarracin) @RahulSam
Cognitive Computing vs. LLMs (w/ Mahault Albarracin)  @RahulSam
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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 scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KAxZtUIAAAAJ&hl=en and linkedin.com/in/mahault-albarracin-1742bb153

Verses AI: verses.ai/research
Spatial Web Foundation: spatialwebfoundation.org

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