The Northwest AGI Forum is pleased and honored to welcome ACM Distinguished Speaker Dr. Antonio Lieto to present his book:
"Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138207950 *********** Where: Zoom only (Seattle area meetup) When: Apr 28, 2021, 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time (will be early evening in Europe, 9 hours ahead in Italy) Register: https://www.meetup.com/Northwest-Artificial-General-Intelligence-Meetup-Group/events/277014146/ *********** There has long been a tension in AI between: 1) The perceived need to use the human mind as the primary source of an AI's design on the strong argument that the mind is best model of intelligence and is therefore likely to produce the best AI and, 2) The practical need to produce and sell AI applications using whatever means are available that do the trick. Whether the AI's design is inspired by the mind or not is secondary to the practical needs of the users who might not care what happens behind the scenes. In "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" Lieto suggests arguments in favor of the first strategy in order to develop the Next Generation of integrated AI systems. As stated in Routledge's book description: "Introducing a unique perspective that draws upon Cybernetics and early AI principles, Lieto emphasizes the need for an equivalence between cognitive processes and implemented AI procedures, in order to realize biologically and cognitively inspired artificial minds." Lieto introduces a means of quantifying the degree to which an AI conforms to the structural principles of the mind (again from the book description): "He also introduces the Minimal Cognitive Grid, a pragmatic method to rank the different degrees of biological and cognitive accuracy of artificial systems in order to project and predict their explanatory power with respect to the natural systems taken as a source of inspiration." Click here for a full description of the book including reviews: https://www.routledge.com/Cognitive-Design-for-Artificial-Minds/Lieto/p/book/9781138207950 Note: Regulars of this meetup will recall that one of Lieto's papers formed the centerpiece of our meetup "Concepts." We anticipate an introduction to the book by Dr. Lieto and then we will have Q&A for the remainder. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta297eac993c72b96-M3364332898ae2084b9b7f291 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
