Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2015-2016)
Time: Friday June 10, 14h-16h Place: *room * *D.1.07*, building D, VUB ------------------------------ Open ended Intelligence - on the individuation of intelligent agents David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/weaver9> (ECCO, GBI) Abstract: Artificial general intelligence is a field of research aiming to distill the principles of intelligence that operate independently of a specific problem domain and utilize these principles in order to synthesize systems capable of performing any intellectual task a human being is capable of and beyond. While “narrow” artificial intelligence which focuses on solving specific problems such as speech recognition, text comprehension, visual pattern recognition and robotic motion has shown impressive breakthroughs lately, understanding general intelligence remains elusive. We propose a paradigm shift from intelligence perceived as a competence of individual agents defined in relation to an a priori given problem domain or a goal, to intelligence perceived as a formative process of self-organization. We call this process open-ended intelligence. Starting with a brief introduction of the current conceptual approach, we expose a number of serious limitations that are traced back to the ontological roots of the concept of intelligence. Open-ended intelligence is then developed as an abstraction of the process of human cognitive development, so its application can be extended to general agents and systems. We introduce and discuss three facets of the idea: the philosophical concept of individuation, sense-making and the individuation of general cognitive agents. We further show how open-ended intelligence can be framed in terms of a distributed, self-organizing network of interacting elements and how such process is scalable. The framework highlights an important relation between coordination and intelligence and a new understanding of values. References: Weinbaum, D. (Weaver), & Veitas, V. (2016). Open ended intelligence: the individuation of intelligent agents. *Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence*, *0*(0), 1–26. http://doi.org/10.1080/0952813X.2016.1185748 ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *June 17* Nathalie Mezza-Garcia *Can We Fork the State? Open Source Legislation for the Government of Earth* See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
