W.S. Harwin

March 2016

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Intelligence
Collaboration
Ethics

Living systems

Norbert Weiner's test of living systems:

the power to learn.
the power to reproduce.

Brains not necessary

Why do we need Brains?

to move

for fast purposeful movement
to manage contact in an unstructured world

Intelligence

Elephants don't play chess? (paper by Rodney Brooks, MIT)
Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder?
Brains means neurons, intellegence may be not.
Rapid brain development may be linked to humans starting to hunt larger savanna animals. Humans needed to reason on animal behaviour and make deduction from animal spoor.

SMPA vs Behaviour

Sense Model Plan Act (SMPA)

Behaviour programming

Braitenberg vehicles: a lesson from physiology

Braitenberg vehicle, Aggressive light seeker (left), Shy light seeker (right)

Braitenberg vehicle, Aggressive light seeker (left), Shy light seeker (right)

Excitory and inhibitory synapse. Excitory synapse is on a motor neuron axon, the inhibitory synapse is on a sensory neuron

Cyclops

Cognitive robotics

http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma/CARL/robots.html Carl
http://www.nsi.edu/nomad/ Nomad (The Darwin robots)
http://www.cogric.reading.ac.uk/ Cogric 2006

One of Darwin's brains

Darwin VII.

R	Retinal area
VAP	Primary visual area
VAPB	Blobs
VAPH	Horizontal lines
VAPV	Vertical lines
LCoch/ RCoch	Left and right Cochlear
A1	Primary audio area
IT	Inferotemporal cortex (secondary visual area)
S	value system
Mapp	Appetitive motor area
Mave	Aversive motor area
TappA	Appetitive taste (strongly conductive blocks)
Tave	Aversive taste (weakly conductive blocks)
C	`colliculus' - allows visual tracking
R1 R2 R3	Reflex response

Internal models of Lipsen and Bongard

http://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.html Hod Lipson: Building "self-aware" robots TED talk

Questions?