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Recent Advances in Cognitive Systems

Posted by timothy on from the smarter-than-me dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "ERCIM News is a quarterly publication from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. The April 2003 issue is dedicated to cognitive systems. It contains no less than 21 articles which are all available online. In this column, you'll find a summary of the introduction and what are the possible applications of these cognitive systems. There's also a picture of the cover, a little robot with a very nice looking blue wig. And in A Gallery of Cognitive Systems, you'll find a selection of stories, including links, abstracts and illustrations (the whole page weighs 217 KB). There are very good pictures of autonomous soccer robots, swarm bots, cognitive vision systems, and more."

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  1. Re:Not all cognitive scientists do that. by StrawberryFrog · · Score: 3, Informative

    The goal of all the cognitive scientists I've met is to make machines think, just as with A.I.

    I have never met any cognitive scientists, but I've read books on the subject by Danniel Dennet (who is arguably a philosopher not a scientist) and Steven Pinker (a cognitive scientist). The works of both of them are highly recommended.

    Anyway, niether of them are focused on making machines think, but rather on understanding what makes humans think.

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    My Karma: ran over your Dogma
    StrawberryFrog

  2. Somewhat Relevant Plug... by Yoda2 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA) is an open source software system written in Java that enables a computer to learn simple language from scratch based on visual perception. It is the first "grounded" language system capable of learning both nouns and verbs. Moreover, once EBLA has established a vocabulary, it can perform basic scene analysis to generate descriptions of novel videos.

    A more detailed summary is available here and this is the project web site.

    Compared to proprietary systems such as Ai's HAL, Meaningful Machines Knowledge Engine, and Lobal Technologies LAD, EBLA is the only system to incorporate grounded/perceptual understanding of language.

  3. Not a great read by Illserve · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was disappointed by the 5 articles I read and stopped reading. It basically reads like a catalog of the projects and techno-terms that are being performed with very little actual content.

    Basically each one boiled down to: our lab does the XYZAB project and we're studying this system.