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Knives, Robots and the Pentagon
Telepresence and Following Yourself So there I was at the initial outdoor security check at the Pentagon. They asked each person to open any laptop […]
Miscellaneous #1
Think current AI text generators are getting us very close to human-like language acquisition? Gary Marcus says think again: “Learning Language is Harder Than You […]
Is Human-Level AI Possible Without Childhood Emotions?
Emotional Developmental Symbol Creation To create an artificial intelligence similar to humans or other animals, it has to have some way to generate meaning. A […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Biomimetic Emotional Learning Agents
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 […]