IM-CLeVER and iCub - EU Funded Projects - Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, Abstraction of Sensory Inputs ...

Have you seen this cute little baby robot?I have heard of it, but checking the aims and basic assumptions of the project from the source pushed me - they're in the right direction and aware of the issues, Juergen Schmidhuber is being one of the leaders.Another signal that I have to discipline my ass, as well... :)http://www.im-clever.eu/project/project-descriptionIM-CLeVeR is supported by the European Commissionunder the ‘FP7 Cognitive Systems, Interaction,and Robotics Initiative’, grant no. 231722.Start: 01/01/2009 (start...

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Mathematical Theory of Intelligence - Second Course in AGI/UAI at Plovdiv University by Todor Arnaudov (Course Program in English)

Mathematical Theory of Intelligence (AGI/Universal AI) by Todor Arnaudov http://research.twenkid.com http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com The course was taught to undergraduate students between 1/2011 – 3/2011 at Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria, in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. (Originally in Bulgarian, with a lot of additional sugguested materials in English). This was the second AGI/UAI course after "Artificial General Intelligence/Universal Artificial Intelligence" (originally: "Универсален...

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Universal Artificial Intelligence by M. Hutter, Neocortical Mini-Columns in Reinforcement Learning Context, Creativity & Virtual Worlds - at AGI 2010

Selection of recommended talks on AGI 2010 conference:Marcus Hutter - Universal Artificial Intelligence, AGI 2010Tutorial on Mini-Column Hypothesis in the Context of Neural Mechanisms of Reinforcement Learning - by Randal A. Koene, AGI 2010Related to M. Hutter - Jurgen Schmidhuber notices that reinforcement learning needs many steps, many decision points, and marks compression progress as an abstract form of reward for cognitive processes:Jurgen Schmidhuber-Artificial Scientists Artists Based on the Formal Theory of Creativity,...

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News: Official AGI Journal and Independent AGI E-zine

I've been considering founding a sort of independent journal for AGI, where to give some more "formal" shape of works of Boris Kazachenko, myself and other independent researchers, it might be called just "e-zine". [ It was "formally declared" a month later here. ] It seems there is an official Journal created already http://journal.agi-network.org/ with a solid Editorial Board.However it got a problem - it's not allowed to submit already published stuff. There are some AGI ideas and suggestions published or shared on-line...

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HyperNEAT in Neural Networks and Ontologies in NLP - Why They Seem Promising?

1. HyperNEAT Exerpts from the site (bold - mine):"In short, HyperNEAT is based on a theory of representation that hypothesizes that a good representation for an artificial neural network should be able to describe its pattern of connectivity compactly.This kind of description is called an encoding. The encoding in HyperNEAT, called compositional pattern producing networks, is designed to represent patterns with regularities such as symmetry, repetition, and repetition with variation. (...)The other unique and important facet...

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Proposal for Directed/Guided Evolution of a Cognitive Module/Algorithm by Step-by-Step Modification of a Basic One - from Archicortex to Neocortex

This is a direction I realized last year during a discussion on Boris' knols and mentioned there, but later I shortened the comment there, because it wasn't the appropriate place for the detailsThe idea is about designing cognitive algorithm achieving properties that Boris proposes, however grounding it and deriving it on a supposedly simpler and easier to understand cognitive algorithm that has existed before in lower species and was slightly modified by evolution.Keywords: embryology, comparative neurobiology, embryogenesis,...

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