Science, Technology & the Future
“I see the AGI conference as an attempt.. to get back to the original idea of artificial intelligence – to see computational systems as an avenue to developing an understanding of how the mind works. I think this is at its heart a philosophical issue, a philosophical enterprise… but the methods that we need are some that we do not find in contemporary philosophy – so my idea is not to build applications or to develop formalisms that can be used to build applications, but it’s about maybe a subset of analytical philosophy; it’s in a way ‘computational philosophy’ where analytical philosophy allows you to express anything that can be, or use anything that can be expressed in a formal language in principle – I want to narrow this even further down. There are things that can be expressed in a computational system that are computable; that can run. This means you do exclude paradoxes which excludes not only those things that you cannot specify, but also excludes things you can specify but are paradoxes which could run – so eventually the proof that you have understood something from the point of view of a computer scientist is that it works. And I do think that you need such an approach as it has pervaded most of physics for instance already – you need such an approach in philosophy of mind too.”
Joscha Bach, Ph.D. is an AI researcher who worked and published about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. He earned his Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and has built computational models of motivated decision making, perception, categorization, and concept-formation. He is especially interested in the philosophy of AI and in the augmentation of the human mind.
Joscha has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. His book “Principles of Synthetic Intelligence” (Oxford University Press) is available on amazon now: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Synthetic-Intelligence-PSI-Architectures/dp/0195370678
Interview with Joscha Bach by Ben Goertzel on HplusMagazine.com : http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/05/04/joscha-bach%E2%80%99s-quest-to-understand-the-mind/
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thanks adam
Fascinating.. thanks Adam!
Joscha was great, during the FHI Winter Intelligence conference he often had some great comments during some of the sessions.
Indeed thanks, that was a great interview
Many Thanks!
I find it great that there are videos like this. Thanks to Adam and to Joscha Bach. Please try to get a Part II of this video with a wider spectrum of questions. This inspires people who want to be part in the formation of AI.
I wish we had more time to do the interview. I hope that I get the chance to do further interviews with Josha Bach.
Very interesting. I rarely see the case against "spirits" made well. On the other hand, I'm disappointed by your unfounded belief in global warming. The data shows clearly that man's production of CO2 is insignificant, and that organizations pushing this idea have political and pecuniary motives, not scientific ones.
The details says the name is "Joscha Bach, Ph.D.", but in the title, is reads "Josha Bach". So there must be a typo.
This was really good, thanks Adam.
This is a very inspiring and futuristic field. It would help a lot of social, personal and educational problems as well as treatment fields for cognitive sciences. Go for it Joscha.
It's funny how Joscha looks similar to Gary Numan!
I always have to think of the Numan song "Down in the Park", when people talk about the future of AI/ AGI! o_O ! 😉
we're still here
Very nice