How To Think About Cognitive Systems: Requirements and Designs

Published by Aaron Sloman,

School of Computer Science,

The University of Birmingham, UK

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/

Much early thinking about AI was about forms of representation, the knowledge expressed, and the algorithms to operate on those representations. Later there was much in-fighting between factions promoting particular forms of representation and associated algorithms, e.g. neural computations, evolutionary algorithms, reactive behaviours, physics-inspired dynamical systems. More recently, attention has turned to ways of combining different mechanisms, formalisms and kinds of knowledge within a single multi-functional system, i.e. within one architecture. Minsky's Society of Mind was a major example. Click for more...