Information Technology and its impacts
... It is 1965. Three years ago for reasons of economy and efficiency the trustees of Columbia University have decided to disband the Office of University Admissions and to install in its place a thinking machine to be called the Electronic Director of Admissions. Installation was completed in the sprin ...
... It is 1965. Three years ago for reasons of economy and efficiency the trustees of Columbia University have decided to disband the Office of University Admissions and to install in its place a thinking machine to be called the Electronic Director of Admissions. Installation was completed in the sprin ...
Automating the Design of Virtual Worlds Using Rational Agents
... used in virtual worlds lag behind the current state of the art in AI research: ...
... used in virtual worlds lag behind the current state of the art in AI research: ...
Different roles and mutual dependencies of data
... concepts that are polymorphic. A polymorphic concept is a concept which can not be defined by a classical definition, i.e. as a set of necessary and sufficient features that are universally valid [50, 72]. Typical examples of polymorphic concepts are car, chair, orange, bird. Such concepts have very ...
... concepts that are polymorphic. A polymorphic concept is a concept which can not be defined by a classical definition, i.e. as a set of necessary and sufficient features that are universally valid [50, 72]. Typical examples of polymorphic concepts are car, chair, orange, bird. Such concepts have very ...
Brain - American Museum of Natural History
... • People with larger brains are smarter than people with smaller brains. (False) Although this was a belief commonly held and debated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, brain size among individuals does not vary significantly. The brains of people who were widely considered to be smarter than most ...
... • People with larger brains are smarter than people with smaller brains. (False) Although this was a belief commonly held and debated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, brain size among individuals does not vary significantly. The brains of people who were widely considered to be smarter than most ...
The Communication of Meaning and the
... The communication of meaning as different from (Shannon-type) information is central to Luhmann’s social systems theory and Giddens’ structuration theory of action. These theories share an emphasis on reflexivity, but focus on meaning along a divide between inter-human communication and intentful ac ...
... The communication of meaning as different from (Shannon-type) information is central to Luhmann’s social systems theory and Giddens’ structuration theory of action. These theories share an emphasis on reflexivity, but focus on meaning along a divide between inter-human communication and intentful ac ...
Contribution Handbook agent-based computational
... situations. They may look for loopholes in the law, particularly if they think others are doing the same. They may check out the level of enforcement by occasionally breaking rules. Those who have responsibility for changing the rules of an institution also experiment with new rules and try to learn ...
... situations. They may look for loopholes in the law, particularly if they think others are doing the same. They may check out the level of enforcement by occasionally breaking rules. Those who have responsibility for changing the rules of an institution also experiment with new rules and try to learn ...
agentes reactivos
... series of negotiations or intervention hierarchy between agents, rather than through searching. • Each agent could represent different interest conflicts, which should be followed carefully. • If at the end of the iteration an adequate solution is not reached, a restriction has not been taken into a ...
... series of negotiations or intervention hierarchy between agents, rather than through searching. • Each agent could represent different interest conflicts, which should be followed carefully. • If at the end of the iteration an adequate solution is not reached, a restriction has not been taken into a ...
3 Experiments
... norm 1 suggests, within each simulation cycle, each agent improves one of their capability levels and checks whether it attains required capability levels of a new role in the system. We used the same basic setup with the same number of agents, capabilities, and roles in the experiments in remainder ...
... norm 1 suggests, within each simulation cycle, each agent improves one of their capability levels and checks whether it attains required capability levels of a new role in the system. We used the same basic setup with the same number of agents, capabilities, and roles in the experiments in remainder ...
programme summary - Department of Informatics
... Tutors: Amanda Coles and Andrew Coles In order to function autonomously, intelligent agents need to be able to plan a course of action to reach their desired goals. This tutorial introduces the established research area of artificial intelligence (AI) planning, focusing in particular on domain-indep ...
... Tutors: Amanda Coles and Andrew Coles In order to function autonomously, intelligent agents need to be able to plan a course of action to reach their desired goals. This tutorial introduces the established research area of artificial intelligence (AI) planning, focusing in particular on domain-indep ...
What is behavior modification?
... When should behavior modification techniques be implemented? Before introducing an intervention, several things must take place. First, it must be established that there is, • condition, language difficulties, or cultural differences, must be investigated. Additionally, inputfrom other staff • and ...
... When should behavior modification techniques be implemented? Before introducing an intervention, several things must take place. First, it must be established that there is, • condition, language difficulties, or cultural differences, must be investigated. Additionally, inputfrom other staff • and ...
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... sensors and its effectors without using the handcrafted (or genespecified) content or the handcrafted boundaries for concepts about the extra-body environments. Almassy, Edelman, and Sporns (1998), further refined in Sporns et al. (1999), proposed a neuromorphic architecture for learning primary and ...
... sensors and its effectors without using the handcrafted (or genespecified) content or the handcrafted boundaries for concepts about the extra-body environments. Almassy, Edelman, and Sporns (1998), further refined in Sporns et al. (1999), proposed a neuromorphic architecture for learning primary and ...
A cognitive neuroscience account of posttraumatic stress disorder
... hard-wired responses to threat including release of stress hormones, activation of the sympathetic nervous system, and behavioural responses such as fight/flight and freezing (LeDoux, Iwata, Cicchetti & Reis, 1988). Information about threat is conveyed from the sense organs to the amygdala via a num ...
... hard-wired responses to threat including release of stress hormones, activation of the sympathetic nervous system, and behavioural responses such as fight/flight and freezing (LeDoux, Iwata, Cicchetti & Reis, 1988). Information about threat is conveyed from the sense organs to the amygdala via a num ...
Psychological and Neuroscientific Connections with Reinforcement
... a US will follow a CS. The prediction is thought to arise from the strengthening of an association between the CS and the US. Associations are strengthened when there is a prediction error (i.e., the animal does not already predict that the US will follow the CS), there is contingency (the US follow ...
... a US will follow a CS. The prediction is thought to arise from the strengthening of an association between the CS and the US. Associations are strengthened when there is a prediction error (i.e., the animal does not already predict that the US will follow the CS), there is contingency (the US follow ...
Planning and acting in partially observable stochastic domains
... (POMDPs). Of course, we are not interested only in problems of robot navigation. Similar problems come up in factory process control, oil exploration, transportation logistics, and a variety of other complex real-world situations. This is essentially a planning problem: given a complete and correct ...
... (POMDPs). Of course, we are not interested only in problems of robot navigation. Similar problems come up in factory process control, oil exploration, transportation logistics, and a variety of other complex real-world situations. This is essentially a planning problem: given a complete and correct ...
Levinson_Deep_Blue_Is_still_an_infant
... Self-Rep Keating Ideally, one would like AI agents and software of any kind to have the ability to create copies of themselves with improvements occurring in future generations, much as evolution makes use of biological systems. Ways in which software can be improved, while doing exactly the same th ...
... Self-Rep Keating Ideally, one would like AI agents and software of any kind to have the ability to create copies of themselves with improvements occurring in future generations, much as evolution makes use of biological systems. Ways in which software can be improved, while doing exactly the same th ...
Conceptual grouping in word co-occurrence networks
... One way to quantify the ideas on conceptual grouping presented above is to build a custom semantic network for a user query. What we do is build a new small semantic network with all concepts that are linked to the user query (e.g. 'bomb', see Figure 1, which shows only some of the links around 'bom ...
... One way to quantify the ideas on conceptual grouping presented above is to build a custom semantic network for a user query. What we do is build a new small semantic network with all concepts that are linked to the user query (e.g. 'bomb', see Figure 1, which shows only some of the links around 'bom ...
Machine Super Intelligence
... movement of the planets across the sky, or maybe the stock market, assuming that one is not wealthy enough to influence the market. In the more general active case the agent is able to take actions which may affect the observed future. For example, an agent playing chess not only observes the other ...
... movement of the planets across the sky, or maybe the stock market, assuming that one is not wealthy enough to influence the market. In the more general active case the agent is able to take actions which may affect the observed future. For example, an agent playing chess not only observes the other ...
A Perspective on Machine Consciousness
... Qualia are considered central to the mind-body problem and to the development of a proper understanding of consciousness. They are usually referred to as introspection [60] or awareness, which are different from consciousness [49]. It is notable that Sloman has specifically warned against using just ...
... Qualia are considered central to the mind-body problem and to the development of a proper understanding of consciousness. They are usually referred to as introspection [60] or awareness, which are different from consciousness [49]. It is notable that Sloman has specifically warned against using just ...
View PDF - Advances in Cognitive Systems
... when the agent is asked to operate in a new task environment; Murdock and Goel, 2008). Secondly, adaptations can be either to the deliberative element in the agent architecture (Birnbaum et al., 1990; Stroulia and Goel, 1995; Leake, 1996; Murdock and Goel, 2008), or the reactive element (Stroulia an ...
... when the agent is asked to operate in a new task environment; Murdock and Goel, 2008). Secondly, adaptations can be either to the deliberative element in the agent architecture (Birnbaum et al., 1990; Stroulia and Goel, 1995; Leake, 1996; Murdock and Goel, 2008), or the reactive element (Stroulia an ...
Brain regions involved in heading estimation and steering control in
... Community ambulation requires us to adapt our locomotor strategy in response to changing contextual demands. Beyond the different neural systems responsible for the maintenance of upright posture (Duffy & Wurtz, 1996) and rhythmic activation of the limb (Purves, Augustine, & Fitzpatrick, 2004), loco ...
... Community ambulation requires us to adapt our locomotor strategy in response to changing contextual demands. Beyond the different neural systems responsible for the maintenance of upright posture (Duffy & Wurtz, 1996) and rhythmic activation of the limb (Purves, Augustine, & Fitzpatrick, 2004), loco ...
CS 8520: Artificial Intelligence
... • which drastically limits search for solutions • in large problem spaces. • Heuristics do not guarantee optimal solutions; in fact, they do not guarantee any solution at all: all that can be said for a useful heuristic is that it offers solutions which are good enough most of the time. – Feigenbaum ...
... • which drastically limits search for solutions • in large problem spaces. • Heuristics do not guarantee optimal solutions; in fact, they do not guarantee any solution at all: all that can be said for a useful heuristic is that it offers solutions which are good enough most of the time. – Feigenbaum ...
Module Introduction - School of Computer Science
... Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is an academic field of study which studies the goal of creating intelligence. Major AI researchers and textbooks define this field as "the study and design of intelligent agents", where an intelligent agent is a ...
... Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is an academic field of study which studies the goal of creating intelligence. Major AI researchers and textbooks define this field as "the study and design of intelligent agents", where an intelligent agent is a ...
- Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute
... Table 1). Five sentences of each type are used for a total of 45 sentences. Sentences are read aloud to the patients in a pseudo-random order, and after each sentence, the subject should indicate by pointing at photographs ‘who did what to whom,’ indicating in canonical order the agent, object and r ...
... Table 1). Five sentences of each type are used for a total of 45 sentences. Sentences are read aloud to the patients in a pseudo-random order, and after each sentence, the subject should indicate by pointing at photographs ‘who did what to whom,’ indicating in canonical order the agent, object and r ...
CSC 480: Artificial Intelligence
... a rule can be activated if all parts of the antecedent are satisfied often used for real-time expert systems in monitoring and control ...
... a rule can be activated if all parts of the antecedent are satisfied often used for real-time expert systems in monitoring and control ...