Sam KenyonEmotional Developmental Symbol Creation To create an artificial intelligence similar to humans or other animals, it has to have some way to generate meaning. A […]
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The Ideal Film AI
Many years ago, Ben Bogart asked the question: “What do you consider the most seminal representations of AI in cinema of all time?” At the […]
Walk Softly and Carry an Appropriately Sized Stick
Polymorphism in Mental Development What does a crow with a stick have to do with computer programming? And AI? Before we get there, I propose […]
Creating a Bookmark List
In response to “The Small Website Discoverability Crisis” I’m making a list of bookmarks to small sites that I find interesting. And interesting does not […]
Growing Robot Minds
One way to increase the intelligence of a robot might be to train it with a series of missions, analogous to the missions or levels […]
Mechanisms of Meaning
Towards Real Semantics for Strong AI I talked about “symbol grounding” before in “AI Don’t Know Jack?” but there’s always more to say. As a […]
AI Will Make These 5 Jobs Extinct in the Next 20 Years
Nobody is safe! 1. Web Developers There won’t be much of a web soon, so we won’t need web developers. Everything will transfer into Meta’s […]
Strong AI is a Design Problem
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 […]
Code Experience vs. Math Experience
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 […]
Architecting Emotional Robots
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 […]