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Jesse Parent B.S. - Assistant Scientist & Cognition Futures Group Lead
Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory
Orthogonal Research and
Education Laboratory
Frontier Map and
Cognition Futures
Embodied Intelligence + A Survey of
Computational Models of Cognition
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EIW ‘21 Agenda
- Background
- Where to Start? | “What happened to Cybernetics?”
- Need for a map | FrontierMap: An Umbrella Project
- Hybrid, Dev., Embodied | Cognition Futures & Developmental AI
- The Cognition Futures Project
- SurveyCogModel:
A Survey of Computational Models of Cognition
(Trajectories and Changes)
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EC Researchers - Where to Start?
“What Happened to Cybernetics?”
- Norbert Wiener, et al
- Conant and Ashby
- Every Good Regulator
- Gibsonian Information
- Affordances…
- (radical) embodied cognition
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EC Researchers - Where to Start?
A vast, unstructured set of arenas and foci?
- A sea of popular conferences (NeurIPS, AAAI, Society for Neuroscience, ICLR)
- What context am I missing - and how do I get it?
- What should I study?
References that I don’t know
- Throwbacks and cycles (seasons) of interest
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Need for a Map: FrontierMap
OREL Presentation at csv,conf,v5 (2020)
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FrontierMap: An Umbrella Project
OREL Presentation at csv,conf,v5 (2020)
Towards "Cognition Futures”
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Towards "Cognition Futures”
Hybrid AI
Embodied
Developmental
Orthogonal Research and Education Lab
Friston on Challenges & Problems
(IEEE Soft Robotics Podcast)
“What is the relationship between the brain and the body?
The answer could be cast in terms of what is the nature of
intelligence, where intelligence is an attribute of creatures or
systems / agents that have brains. I think the answer to that
can be found probably in cybernetics and certainly more
recent formulations of things like the good regulator theorem
in theoretical biology. “
“Understanding the form, nature, and structure of the
generative models that we as people bring to the table and
navigate our world”
Towards "Cognition Futures”
SurveyCogModel
A Survey of Computational Models of Cognition
Jesse Parent - Assistant Scientist & Cognition Futures Group Lead
Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory
Orthogonal Research and
Education Laboratory
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SurveyCogModel: Driving Questions - Fundamental
What are we trying to identify?
- In simple terms, map the technical and computational evolution of models of cognition.
Why?
- What has been tried, what has not. (Paradigms)
How?
- What questions can we center this investigation around?
- What to highlight and pay attention to when looking back at a vast history of approaches?
- “What is the signal we’re differentiating from the noise?”
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SurveyCogModel: Driving Questions - Refined
What are we trying to identify?
1. How did computational modeling of cognitive processes evolve?
1. What languages and software were available that enabled or limited these models?
2. What hardware enabled or limited these models?
3. Paradigms & theories they support
2. What are existing taxonomies for discussing cognitive models?
1. What are they lacking? What could be improved?
3. What developments in other fields influenced cognitive models?
1. Neuroscience, "AI", "cognitive science", philosophy, linguistics, engineering & robotics,
anthropology (?)
This project is mostly designed to cover questions #1 and #2, where as #3 is perhaps more covered by the
Cognition Study Group, but #3 is mentioned as it completes the picture of how cognition models evolved.
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Formative Concepts
- Embodiment and the 3/4Es
- “The Cognitive Revolution”
- Symbolic vs Connectionist vs Hybrid
-Winters & Summers of AI
-“The Bitter Lesson” - Rich Sutton
- Notable features
- Models of Development & Cognition
- Allostasis & Regulation
- Cybernetics (EGRT), Free Energy,
Complexity
What has changed?
What should change?
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Formative Concepts - and evolutions?
Cognition in ALIFE, Virtual Worlds
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More from our lab
Stefan Dvoretskii
Modelling Neural Development with BraitenbergVehicles Bradly Alicea
Approaches to Developmental Embodied Neurosimulation
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Tomorrow!
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Thank You & Our Team
Orthogonal Research and
Education Laboratory
Dr Bradly Alicea,
Jesse Parent,
Anson Lim,
Daniela Cialfi
And OREL & DevoWorm groups
for support & Discussion