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AAAI Fall Symposium Reports

AI Magazine

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence presented the 2007 Fall Symposium Series on Friday through Sunday, November 9–11, at the Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia. The titles of the seven symposia were (1) AI and Consciousness: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches, (2) Artificial Intelligence for Prognostics, (3) Cognitive Approaches to Natural Language Processing, (4) Computational Approaches to Representation Change during Learning and Development, (5) Emergent Agents and Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, (6) Intelligent Narrative Technologies, and (7) Regarding the "Intelligence" in Distributed Intelligent Systems.


AAAI Fall Symposium Reports

AI Magazine

Is it possible to build a conscious machine? There was an almost generally accepted of AI since its beginnings. The symposium was psychological, philosophical, and the first official place where scholars-- neuroscientific theories of consciousness; coming from different fields as far as (3) it is possible to address consciousness neuroscience and philosophy, psychology not only from neuroscience, and computer science--addressed psychology, and philosophy, the issue of consciousness in a but also from AI; and (4) the role of traditional AI environment. Furthermore, embodiment and situatedness is almost there was a good balance of universally recognized. A recurrent topic was the fact that The participants' talks centered on the topic of the symposium and generated the field of consciousness seems to be lively discussions of their research.