The author tries to explain his view of artificial intelligence, and more broadly how it fits into science as a whole. In doing so, he will not hesitate to indulge in sheer speculation when it seems to fit the topic. He will begin with a negative thought (one that he does not agree with). Consider the statement that, while robots and AI (artificial intelligence) may make great strides in the future, still they never will be able to produce music with the sensitivity of certain humans with great...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Perlis, Don, ROCHESTER UNIV NY DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,...

The research project explores specific meta-dialogue behaviors in terms of both how a system could be made to perform them, and to what extent they can increase overall system performance. We focus on two types of meta-dialogue capabilities: ability to detect and recover from anomalous dialogue patterns in simple exchanges, and on-line extensions or changes to working vocabulary. Our main method involves detailed representation of the dialogue context, separating domain, language, and dialogue...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Perlis, Don, MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK, *LEARNING MACHINES, PROCESSING, COMPUTER...

I argue that consciousness is an aspect of an agent's intelligence, hence of its ability to deal adaptively with the world. In particular, it allows for the possibility of noting and correcting the agent's own errors. This in turn requires a robust self model as part of its world model, as well as the capability to come to see that world model as residing in its belief base (-part of its self model), while then representing the actual world as possibly different, i.e. forming a new world model.
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