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 Feldman, Jerome


Towards a Science of Mind

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Doing this requires a consistent terminology that makes principled distinctions, and that allows clear operationalization of the different concepts that a science of emotion will use." The study of emotion and its subjective partner feelings is an instance of the brain/mind problem and the need for a consistent terminology extends to the general case considered here. There are many other disciplines and practices concerned with the human mind and the foundations for scientific study are not always clear. For example, a statement that a spider or a robot has a mind could be a scientific or a definitional assertion.



Reports on the 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

AI Magazine

It is also important to remember that having a very sharp distinction of AI A rise in real-world applications of AI has stimulated for social good research is not always feasible, and significant interest from the public, media, and policy often unnecessary. While there has been significant makers. Along with this increasing attention has progress, there still exist many major challenges facing come a media-fueled concern about purported negative the design of effective AIbased approaches to deal consequences of AI, which often overlooks the with the difficulties in real-world domains. One of the societal benefits that AI is delivering and can deliver challenges is interpretability since most algorithms for in the near future. To address these concerns, the AI for social good problems need to be used by human symposium on Artificial Intelligence for the Social end users. Second, the lack of access to valuable data Good (AISOC-17) highlighted the benefits that AI can that could be crucial to the development of appropriate bring to society right now. It brought together AI algorithms is yet another challenge. Third, the researchers and researchers, practitioners, experts, data that we get from the real world is often noisy and and policy makers from a wide variety of domains.


Mysteries of Visual Experience

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Science is a crowning glory of the human spirit and its applications remain our best hope for social progress. But there are limitations to current science and perhaps to any science. The general mind-body problem is known to be intractable and currently mysterious. This is one of many deep problems that are universally agreed to be beyond the current purview of Science, including quantum phenomena, etc. But all of these famous unsolved problems are either remote from everyday experience (entanglement, dark matter) or are hard to even define sharply (phenomenology, consciousness, etc.). In this note, we will consider some obvious computational problems in vision that arise every time that we open our eyes and yet are demonstrably incompatible with current theories of neural computation. The focus will be on two related phenomena, known as the neural binding problem and the illusion of a detailed stable visual world.


Natural Language Understanding and Communication for Multi-Agent Systems

AAAI Conferences

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) studies machine language comprehension and action without human intervention. We describe an implemented system that supports deep semantic NLU for controlling systems with multiple simulated robot agents. The system supports bidirectional communication for both human-agent and agent-agent inter-action. This interaction is achieved with the use of N-tuples, a novel form of Agent Communication Language using shared protocols with content expressing actions or intentions. The system’s portability and flexibility is facilitated by its division into unchanging “core” and “application-specific” components.


An Essay Concerning Robotic Understanding

AI Magazine

For our purposes, the goal is to make robots that are as humanlike as possible. Now the question becomes, Could we develop these systems to the point where x/h and The question of whether a computer deep interconnections among mind x/r were used interchangeably. In this can think like a person is once again and body are the crux of the issue. Somewhat to my surprise, Two basic lines of reasoning are thing when we said that Mary or R2D2 this philosophical question used to support the notion that computers understands Proust or loves John. The more common x/r could equal x/h, we must look understanding.