I spent the last 20 years developing a model of working memory and consciousness. I have laid this out in a series of 25 diagrams illustrating the process and "shape" of thought. Now I am interested in implementing this model within a computer to develop artificial superintelligence.
The power of human language and thought arises from systematic compositionality—the algebraic ability to understand and produce novel combinations from known components. Fodor and Pylyshyn1 famously argued that artificial neural networks lack this capacity and are therefore not viable models of the mind. Neural networks have advanced considerably in the years since, yet the systematicity challenge persists. Here we successfully address Fodor and Pylyshyn’s challenge by providing evidence that neural networks can achieve human-like systematicity when optimized for their compositional skills. To do so, we introduce the meta-learning for compositionality (MLC) approach for guiding training through a dynamic stream of compositional tasks. To compare humans and machines, we conducted human behavioural experiments using an instruction learning paradigm. After considering seven different models, we found that, in contrast to perfectly systematic but rigid probabilistic sy
Prof. Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech was named among 10 individuals elevated to Fellow status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
âAAAI is thrilled to announce the election of ten new Fellows for their lasting contributions to the breadth of #AI, including Planning, RL, Robotics, NLP, CBR and Vision The new fellows will be inducted (astrally) and felicitated (with secret hand-shake etc.) during #AAAI2021,â the association said in a tweet.
Goel is a professor of computer science and human-centered computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, his bio notes.
The Indian American professor received his Ph.D. in computer and information science from Ohio State University in 1989 and joined the Georgia Tech faculty the same year. At Georgia Tech, he has been a co-director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design (2008-18) and the director of the Ph.D. program in Human-Center