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Month: November 2021

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Strong AI is a Design Problem

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021 Sam Kenyon 10 mins read

Human-level artificial intelligence is a design problem. Design and Specialization “Design” probably brings to mind various professions dealing with design of form, such as industrial […]

coding

Code Experience vs. Math Experience

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 Sam Kenyon 5 mins read

The Disillusionment of Math The Early Years When I was in elementary school, a consultant taught a small group of us some basic algebra. This […]

ai, cogarch

Architecting Emotional Robots

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 Sam Kenyon 3 mins read

Creating a robot with emotions is a software development problem. Emotion is a matter of cognitive architecture. It is part of the information system of […]

ai, cogarch

Biomimetic Emotional Learning Agents

November 20, 2021November 20, 2021 Sam Kenyon 4 mins read

A Different Approach to AI Back in 2004, when I was an undergrad at Northeastern University in Boston, I started designing a cognitive architecture called […]

coding

On Rehacktoring

November 20, 2021November 20, 2021 Sam Kenyon 4 mins read

Don’t! “Rehacktor” is a portmanteau of “refactor” and “hack.” I consider rechacktoring to be a bad thing as opposed to this definition that has a […]

ai, cogarch, interfaces

What is a Room?

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 Sam Kenyon 3 mins read

No, seriously, what even is a “room?” We all share the concept of rooms. I suspect it’s common and abstract enough to span cultures and […]

ai, cogarch

Recursion and the Human Mind

November 15, 2021November 17, 2021 Sam Kenyon 4 mins read

And a Clash with Enactivism It’s certainly not new to propose recursion as a key element of the human mind—for instance Douglas Hofstadter has been […]

coding

Sherlock Holmes, Master of Code

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Sam Kenyon 5 mins read

Debugging as Solving a Mystery What if I told you that fictional mysteries contain practical real-world methodologies? My day jobs as a software engineer over […]

ai, interfaces

Your Visual System is Lying

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Sam Kenyon 5 mins read

A Tale of Two Visions Does a hill appear steeper when you are already exhausted? Is it true that baseballs appear larger to players when […]

ai, interfaces

Dance of Consciousness

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 Sam Kenyon 3 mins read

According to philosopher Alva Noë: Consciousness is more like dancing than it is like digestion. I.e., consciousness happens while you are interfacing with the world. […]

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