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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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 […]
What is a Room?
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 […]
Recursion and the Human Mind
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 […]
Your Visual System is Lying
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 […]