John Barnden in Professor in Artificial Intelligence and the author of many books and papers on beliefs and intentions, connectionist systems for reasoning, including analogy/case-based reasoning, etc.
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Connectionist Models of High-Level Cognition
John Barnden (U of Birmingham, UK)
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The course will cover the system requirements imposed by high-level cognitive tasks such as commonsense reasoning, natural language discourse understanding, and scene understanding, and will consider possibilities for meeting those requirements in connectionist models. The course will present the considerable difficulties involved in doing so, and will outline a number of connectionist models and approaches that have been developed in the direction of meeting the requirements. It will also address some types of high-level task that have largely been ignored in discussions between connectionist and non-connectionists, such as reasoning about other agents' mental states.
John Barnden in Professor in Artificial Intelligence and the author of many books and papers on beliefs and intentions, connectionist systems for reasoning, including analogy/case-based reasoning, etc. |
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