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Our goal is to establish a global community in the field of modern Artificial Intelligence. The lecture series is an ambitious attempt to communicate complex scientific material by using state-of-the-art technology. Staged in a highly interactive setting, the lectures evoke a lively and entertaining learning environment. The interplay of technology and stage engineering brings out a novel approach to distant learning, setting the ground for a successful implementation of global teaching.
The AI Lectures from Tokyo not only make the concepts of modern Artificial Intelligence available to a wide audience, but also allow the study of community formation and distant learning in an open, interactive setting.
In addition, the lecture series provides means to further explore and stimulate the potential of global communites. Students from different continents and research fields will be working together, pooling knowledge from their diverse backgrounds. The strongly interdisciplinary field of modern Artificial Intelligence will thus be the rich ground from which exciting new aspects of Cognitive Science will emerge, providing us with novel ways of approaching technological, social, and economic problems in the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.