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Can a smooth-talking robot initiate good conversation, generate witty responses, and reveal profound thoughts? See what happens when two chatbots speak to each other
Tracking the development of intelligence in both natural and artificial systems, including humans, monkeys, dolphins, chatbots, and neural network simulations alike.
concepts from robotics and computer vision hold great promise to account for the major aspects of the phenomenon of consciousness, including philosophically problematical aspects such as the vividness of qualia, the first-person character of conscious exp
Embodied Cognition is a growing research program in cognitive science that emphasizes the formative role the environment plays in the development of cognitive processes.
Experiments involving real and simulated robots suggest that the relationship between physical movement and sensory input could be crucial to developing more intelligent machines.
GreatMindsWorking.com is a site dedicated to news from fields including A.I., computational linguistics, robotics, developmental psychology, machine learning, and cognitive science, with special focus on language-related technologies.
The field of neurotechnology, the focus of this blog, encompasses advances in brain science (neurons), information technology (bits) and bioengineering (genes). Up for discussion and analysis: the political, economic, ethical, and social forces that will
Joone is a FREE Neural Network framework to create, train and test artificial neural networks. The aim is to create a powerful environment both for enthusiastic and professional users, based on the newest Java technologies.
Sometime in the next few years or decades, humanity will become capable of surpassing the upper limit on intelligence that has held since the rise of the human species.
The phrase “The Turing Test” is sometimes used more generally to refer to some kinds of behavioural tests for the presence of mind, or thought, or intelligence in putatively minded entities.
This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification.
A half-century after the term was coined, both scientists and engineers say they are making rapid progress in simulating the human brain, and their work is finding its way into a new wave of real-world products.
Artificial intelligence is 50 years old this summer, and while computers can beat the world's best chess players, we still can't get them to think like a 4-year-old.
The BioWall constitutes a major step towards the creation of intelligent, bio-inspired electronic tissues, capable of evolving, self-repairing, self-replicating and learning.
Researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that evolve their own language, bypassing the limits of imposing human rule-based communication.
The purpose of Encephalon is to showcase the best neuroscience blogging, to provide a platform for new bloggers, and to build a network of blogs with neuroscience content.
Learning to communicate and adapting our behaviour to the information we receive has been fundamental to human evolution. If machines could do the same the intelligent talking robots of science fiction could become the stuff of science reality
BBS publishes important and controversial interdisciplinary articles in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy.
This paper describes how the performance of AI machines tends to improve at the same pace that AI researchers get access to faster hardware. The processing power and memory capacity necessary to match general intellectual performance of the human brain ar
Numenta Inc., formed by Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky and Dileep George has begun researching the practical application of Jeff's theories. The Numenta technology, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), is based on a theory of the neocortex described i
The objective is to construct systems that can perceive, understand (the semantics of information conveyed through their perceptual input) and interact with their environment, and evolve to human-like performance in activities requiring context-specific k
“As you start to make robots smarter, you also in some ways make them less predictable, because they become more complex systems. Very complex systems tend to go wrong in unpredictable ways…"
Contrary to conventional wisdom, unreliability is not an essential characteristic of complex software programs. I will propose a silver bullet solution to the software reliability and productivity crisis. The solution will require a radical change in the
A set of 7 poster-sized argumentation maps that chart the history of the debate. The maps outline arguments put forth since 1950 by more than 380 cognitive scientists, philosophers, artificial intelligence researchers, mathematicians, etc. Pretty cool.
ConceptNet is a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and natural-language-processing toolkit which supports many practical textual-reasoning tasks over real-world documents right out-of-the-box. (And omg, there's a version in Common LISP.)
This theory concerns the role of the hippocampus, neocortex, and the thalamus in matching sensory inputs to stored memory patterns and how this process leads to predictions of what will happen next.
To me, however, analogy is anything but a bitty blip — rather, it’s the very blue that fills the whole sky of cognition — analogy is everything, or very nearly so, in my view.
Examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas.
Computational linguistics is a discipline between linguistics and computer science which is concerned with the computational aspects of the human language faculty. It belongs to the cognitive sciences and overlaps with the field of artificial intelligence
Tracking the development of intelligence in both natural and artificial systems, including humans, monkeys, dolphins, chatbots, and neural network simulations alike.
The structures of self-reference in reflexive theories will be used in the design of intelligent systems, as models of indexicals, performatives and self-awareness. Stronger formal models of reflection will be investigated, constructed as reflexive progre
First published in AI Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, Fall 1982. Reprinted in Technology Review, Nov/Dec 1983, and in The Computer Culture, (Donnelly, Ed.) Associated Univ. Presses, Cranbury NJ, 1985
This site includes quite a bit of my own work (papers on consciousness and papers on meaning and modality), and it also includes a number of resources I've put together on topics related to consciousness and/or philosophy: annotated bibliographies, direct
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