NEW JOURNAL: Biologically Inspired Cognitive ArchitecturesAny “biologically inspired” approach to intelligence has to tell you that the prime form and medium of reasoning in humans and higher animals is *movie*-based. Consciousness is a continuous movie, and night-time dreams are continuous movies.
And ever since AI was born, the prime cultural forms of reasoning - TV and movies – have been movie-based. AI-ers along with our wider culture understand extremely little about visual/movie reasoning, so they’ll pretend it ain’t so. Won’t do any good. Without movie-literacy, you can’t understand real world reasoning, period. From: Anastasios Tsiolakidis Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:07 PM To: AGI Subject: [agi] Fwd: First issue now freely available on ScienceDirect this just came out and it doesn't look too shabby. Clicking the links I received a price list so "freely" may be relative. Patrick Winston's abstract is rather telling: I review history, starting with Turing’s seminal paper, reaching back ultimately to when our species started to outperform other primates, searching for the questions that will help us develop a computational account of human intelligence. I answer that the right questions are: What’s different between us and the other primates and what’s the same. I answer the what’s different question by saying that we became symbolic in a way that enabled story understanding, directed perception, and easy communication, and other species did not. I argue against Turing’s reasoning-centered suggestions, offering that reasoning is just a special case of story understanding. I answer the what’s the same question by noting that our brains are largely engineered in the same exotic way, with information flowing in all directions at once. By way of example, I illustrate how these answers can influence a research program, describing the Genesis system, a system that works with short summaries of stories, provided in English, together with low-level common-sense rules and higher-level concept patterns, like- wise expressed in English. Genesis answers questions, notes abstract concepts such as revenge, tells stories in a listener-aware way, and fills in story gaps using precedents. I conclude by sug- gesting, optimistically, that a genuine computational theory of human intelligence will emerge in the next 50 years if we stick to the right, biologically inspired questions, and work toward biologically informed models. a 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Begin forwarded message: From: "The Journal of Bioloically Inspired Cognitive Architectures" <[email protected]> Date: 4. okt. 2012 12.33.24 Subject: First issue now freely available on ScienceDirect Reply-To: <[email protected]> To display this email in a browser, please click here NEW JOURNAL Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Dear Mr Tsiolakidis, We are delighted to announce that the first issue of Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures is now freely available to download on SciVerse Science Direct. Edited by A. Samsonovich, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures is dedicated to a challenge rather than to a topic or an intersection of topics. The journal has a broad scope bridging (yet not limited to) artificial intelligence, cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience and aims to foster collaboration between researchers working on understanding how natural intelligent systems develop their cognitive, metacognitive and learning functions at a computational level. And that's a challenge. The BICA challenge. Download the first issue today! Editorial Alexei V. Samsonovich CoJACK: A high-level cognitive architecture with demonstrations of moderators, variability, and implications for situation awareness Frank E. Ritter, Jennifer L. Bittner, Sue E. Kase, Rick Evertsz, Matteo Pedrotti, Paolo Busetta Worlds as a unifying element of knowledge representation Jonathan R. Scally, Nicholas L. Cassimatis, Hiroyuki Uchida An explanatory reasoning framework for embodied agents Laura M. Hiatt, Sangeet S. Khemlani, J. Gregory Trafton Global Workspace Theory, its LIDA model and the underlying neuroscience Stan Franklin, Steve Strain, Javier Snaider, Ryan McCall, Usef Faghihi Advantages of dilution in the connectivity of attractor networks in the brain Edmund T. Rolls Distributed Adaptive Control: A theory of the Mind, Brain, Body Nexus Paul F.M.J. Verschure Design principles for biologically inspired cognitive robotics Jeffrey L. Krichmar Towards a scientific foundation for engineering Cognitive Systems - A European research agenda, its rationale and perspectives Hans-Georg Stork The next 50 years: A personal view Patrick Henry Winston On a roadmap for the BICA Challenge Alexei V. Samsonovich Download the first issue here AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
