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Arxiv:2012.10390V2 [Cs.AI] 20 Feb 2021 Inaccessible
Opinion - Paper under review Deep Learning and the Global Workspace Theory Rufin VanRullen1, 2 and Ryota Kanai3 1CerCo, CNRS UMR5549, Toulouse, France 2ANITI, Universit´ede Toulouse, France 3Araya Inc, Tokyo. Japan Abstract Recent advances in deep learning have allowed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reach near human-level performance in many sensory, perceptual, linguistic or cognitive tasks. There is a growing need, however, for novel, brain-inspired cognitive architectures. The Global Workspace theory refers to a large-scale system integrating and distributing infor- mation among networks of specialized modules to create higher-level forms of cognition and awareness. We argue that the time is ripe to consider explicit implementations of this theory using deep learning techniques. We propose a roadmap based on unsu- pervised neural translation between multiple latent spaces (neural networks trained for distinct tasks, on distinct sensory inputs and/or modalities) to create a unique, amodal global latent workspace (GLW). Potential functional advantages of GLW are reviewed, along with neuroscientific implications. 1 Cognitive neural architectures in brains and ma- chines Deep learning denotes a machine learning system using artificial neural networks with multiple \hidden" layers between the input and output layers. Although the underlying theory is more than 3 decades old [1, 2], it is only in the last decade that these systems have started to fully reveal their potential [3]. Many of the recent breakthroughs in AI (Artificial Intelligence) have been fueled by deep learning. Neuroscientists have been quick to point out the similarities (and differences) between the brain and these deep artificial neural networks [4{9]. The advent of deep learning has allowed the efficient computer implementation of perceptual and cognitive functions that had been so far arXiv:2012.10390v2 [cs.AI] 20 Feb 2021 inaccessible. -
17. Idealism, Or Something Near Enough Susan Schneider (In
17. Idealism, or Something Near Enough Susan Schneider (In Pearce and Goldsmidt, OUP, in press.) Some observations: 1. Mathematical entities do not come for free. There is a field, philosophy of mathematics, and it studies their nature. In this domain, many theories of the nature of mathematical entities require ontological commitments (e.g., Platonism). 2. Fundamental physics (e.g., string theory, quantum mechanics) is highly mathematical. Mathematical entities purport to be abstract—they purport to be non-spatial, atemporal, immutable, acausal and non-mental. (Whether they truly are abstract is a matter of debate, of course.) 3. Physicalism, to a first approximation, holds that everything is physical, or is composed of physical entities. 1 As such, physicalism is a metaphysical hypothesis about the fundamental nature of reality. In Section 1 of this paper, I urge that it is reasonable to ask the physicalist to inquire into the nature of mathematical entities, for they are doing heavy lifting in the physicalist’s approach, describing and identifying the fundamental physical entities that everything that exists is said to reduce to (supervene on, etc.). I then ask whether the physicalist in fact has the resources to provide a satisfying account of the nature of these mathematical entities, given existing work in philosophy of mathematics on nominalism and Platonism that she would likely draw from. And the answer will be: she does not. I then argue that this deflates the physicalist program, in significant ways: physicalism lacks the traditional advantages of being the most economical theory, and having a superior story about mental causation, relative to competing theories. -
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Nuriel Moghavem, MD University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA [email protected] Victor W. Henderson, MD Stanford University, Stanford, CA Michael D. Greicius, MD, MPH Stanford University, Stanford, CA Disclosure: Dr. Greicius is a co-founder and share-holder of SBGneuro Chrysa Cheronis, MD Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA Wesley Kerr, MD, PhD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Alberto Espay, MD University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, OH Daniel O. Claassen MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Bruce T. Adornato MD Adjunct Clinical Professor of Neurology, Palo Alto, CA Roger L. Albin, MD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI R. Ryan Darby, MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Graham Garrison, MD University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Lina Chervak, MD University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Abhimanyu Mahajan, MD, MHS Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Richard Mayeux, MD Columbia University, New York, NY Lon Schneider MD Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CAv Sami Barmada, MD PhD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Evan Seevak, MD Alameda Health System, Oakland, CA Will Mantyh MD University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Bryan M. Spann, DO, PhD Consultant, Cognitive and Neurobehavior Disorders, Scottsdale, AZ Kevin Duque, MD University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Lealani Mae Acosta, MD, MPH Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Marie Adachi, MD Alameda Health System, Oakland, CA Marina Martin, MD, MPH Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA Matthew Schrag MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Matthew L. Flaherty, MD University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Stephanie Reyes, MD Durham, NC Hani Kushlaf, MD University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH David B Clifford, MD Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri Marc Diamond, MD UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX Disclosure: Dr. -
Artificial Consciousness and the Consciousness-Attention Dissociation
Consciousness and Cognition 45 (2016) 210–225 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Consciousness and Cognition journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/concog Review article Artificial consciousness and the consciousness-attention dissociation ⇑ Harry Haroutioun Haladjian a, , Carlos Montemayor b a Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS (UMR 8242), Université Paris Descartes, Centre Biomédical des Saints-Pères, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France b San Francisco State University, Philosophy Department, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA article info abstract Article history: Artificial Intelligence is at a turning point, with a substantial increase in projects aiming to Received 6 July 2016 implement sophisticated forms of human intelligence in machines. This research attempts Accepted 12 August 2016 to model specific forms of intelligence through brute-force search heuristics and also reproduce features of human perception and cognition, including emotions. Such goals have implications for artificial consciousness, with some arguing that it will be achievable Keywords: once we overcome short-term engineering challenges. We believe, however, that phenom- Artificial intelligence enal consciousness cannot be implemented in machines. This becomes clear when consid- Artificial consciousness ering emotions and examining the dissociation between consciousness and attention in Consciousness Visual attention humans. While we may be able to program ethical behavior based on rules and machine Phenomenology learning, we will never be able to reproduce emotions or empathy by programming such Emotions control systems—these will be merely simulations. Arguments in favor of this claim include Empathy considerations about evolution, the neuropsychological aspects of emotions, and the disso- ciation between attention and consciousness found in humans. -
Artificial Brain Project of Visual Motion
In this issue: • Editorial: Feeding the senses • Supervised learning in spiking neural networks V o l u m e 3 N u m b e r 2 M a r c h 2 0 0 7 • Dealing with unexpected words • Embedded vision system for real-time applications • Can spike-based speech Brain-inspired auditory recognition systems outperform conventional approaches? processor and the • Book review: Analog VLSI circuits for the perception Artificial Brain project of visual motion The Korean Brain Neuroinformatics Re- search Program has two goals: to under- stand information processing mechanisms in biological brains and to develop intel- ligent machines with human-like functions based on these mechanisms. We are now developing an integrated hardware and software platform for brain-like intelligent systems called the Artificial Brain. It has two microphones, two cameras, and one speaker, looks like a human head, and has the functions of vision, audition, inference, and behavior (see Figure 1). The sensory modules receive audio and video signals from the environment, and perform source localization, signal enhancement, feature extraction, and user recognition in the forward ‘path’. In the backward path, top-down attention is per- formed, greatly improving the recognition performance of real-world noisy speech and occluded patterns. The fusion of audio and visual signals for lip-reading is also influenced by this path. The inference module has a recurrent architecture with internal states to imple- ment human-like emotion and self-esteem. Also, we would like the Artificial Brain to eventually have the abilities to perform user modeling and active learning, as well as to be able to ask the right questions both to the right people and to other Artificial Brains. -
ABS: Scanning Neural Networks for Back-Doors by Artificial Brain
ABS: Scanning Neural Networks for Back-doors by Artificial Brain Stimulation Yingqi Liu Wen-Chuan Lee Guanhong Tao [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Purdue University Purdue University Purdue University Shiqing Ma Yousra Aafer Xiangyu Zhang [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rutgers University Purdue University Purdue University ABSTRACT Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ This paper presents a technique to scan neural network based AI 3319535.3363216 models to determine if they are trojaned. Pre-trained AI models may contain back-doors that are injected through training or by 1 INTRODUCTION transforming inner neuron weights. These trojaned models operate Neural networks based artificial intelligence models are widely normally when regular inputs are provided, and mis-classify to a used in many applications, such as face recognition [47], object specific output label when the input is stamped with some special detection [49] and autonomous driving [14], demonstrating their pattern called trojan trigger. We develop a novel technique that advantages over traditional computing methodologies. More and analyzes inner neuron behaviors by determining how output acti- more people tend to believe that the applications of AI models vations change when we introduce different levels of stimulation to in all aspects of life is around the corner [7, 8]. With increasing a neuron. The neurons that substantially elevate the activation of a complexity and functionalities, training such models entails enor- particular output label regardless of the provided input is considered mous efforts in collecting training data and optimizing performance. -
The Project Loon
AISSMS INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University , Approved by AICTE, New Delhi and Recognised by Govt. Of Maharashtra (ID No. PU/PN/ENGG/124/1998) Accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ Grade TELESCAN 2K19 TELESCAN 2019 Editorial Committee We, the students of Electronics & Telecommunication feel the privilege to present the Technical Departmental Magazine of Academic year- TELESCAN 2019 in front of you the magazine provides a platform for the students to express their technical knowledge and enhance their own technical knowledge. We would like to thank Dr.M.P.Sardey (HOD) and Prof. Santosh H Lavate for their constant support and encouraging us throughout the semester to make the magazine great hit. Editorial Team: Staff Co-ordinator: Sanmay Kamble (BE) Santosh H Lavate Abhishek Parte (BE) Supriya Lohar Nehal Gholse (TE) Ankush Muley (TE) TELESCAN 2019 VISION OF E&TC DEPARTMENT To provide quality education in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering with professional ethics MISSION OF E&TC DEPATMENT To develop technical competency, ethics for professional growth and sense of social responsibility among students TELESCAN 2019 INDEX Sr No. Topic Page No. 1 3 Dimensional Integrated Circuit 1 2 4D Printer 4 3 5 Nanometer Semiconductor 5 4 AI: Changing The Face Of Defence 7 5 Artificial Intelligence 10 6 AI: A Boon Or A Bane 11 7 Block Chain 12 8 Blue Brain 14 9 Cobra Effect 16 10 A New Era In Industrial Production 18 11 Radiometry 20 12 Growing Need For Large Bank Of Test Item 21 13 The Project Loon 23 14 -
Living in a Matrix, She Thinks to Herself
y most accounts, Susan Schneider lives a pretty normal life. BAn assistant professor of LIVING IN philosophy, she teaches classes, writes academic papers and A MATrix travels occasionally to speak at a philosophy or science lecture. At home, she shuttles her daughter to play dates, cooks dinner A PHILOSOPHY and goes mountain biking. ProfESSor’S LifE in Then suddenly, right in the middle of this ordinary American A WEB OF QUESTIONS existence, it happens. Maybe we’re all living in a Matrix, she thinks to herself. It’s like in the by Peter Nichols movie when the question, What is the Matrix? keeps popping up on Neo’s computer screen and sets him to wondering. Schneider starts considering all the what-ifs and the maybes that now pop up all around her. Maybe the warm sun on my face, the trees swishing by and the car I’m driving down the road are actually code streaming through the circuits of a great computer. What if this world, which feels so compellingly real, is only a simulation thrown up by a complex and clever computer game? If I’m in it, how could I even know? What if my real- seeming self is nothing more than an algorithm on a computational network? What if everything is a computer-generated dream world – a momentary assemblage of information clicking and switching and running away on a grid laid down by some advanced but unknown intelligence? It’s like that time, after earning an economics degree as an undergrad at Berkeley, she suddenly switched to philosophy. -
A Diatribe on Jerry Fodor's the Mind Doesn't Work That Way1
PSYCHE: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ Yes, It Does: A Diatribe on Jerry Fodor’s The Mind Doesn’t Work that Way1 Susan Schneider Department of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania 423 Logan Hall 249 S. 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 [email protected] © S. Schneider 2007 PSYCHE 13 (1), April 2007 REVIEW OF: J. Fodor, 2000. The Mind Doesn’t Work that Way. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 144 pages, ISBN-10: 0262062127 Abstract: The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way is an expose of certain theoretical problems in cognitive science, and in particular, problems that concern the Classical Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). The problems that Fodor worries plague CTM divide into two kinds, and both purport to show that the success of cognitive science will likely be limited to the modules. The first sort of problem concerns what Fodor has called “global properties”; features that a mental sentence has which depend on how the sentence interacts with a larger plan (i.e., set of sentences), rather than the type identity of the sentence alone. The second problem concerns what many have called, “The Relevance Problem”: the problem of whether and how humans determine what is relevant in a computational manner. However, I argue that the problem that Fodor believes global properties pose for CTM is a non-problem, and that further, while the relevance problem is a serious research issue, it does not justify the grim view that cognitive science, and CTM in particular, will likely fail to explain cognition. 1. Introduction The current project, it seems to me, is to understand what various sorts of theories of mind can and can't do, and what it is about them in virtue of which they can or can't do it. -
Robot Citizenship and Women's Rights: the Case of Sophia the Robot in Saudi Arabia
Robot citizenship and women's rights: the case of Sophia the robot in Saudi Arabia Joana Vilela Fernandes Master in International Studies Supervisor: PhD, Giulia Daniele, Integrated Researcher and Guest Assistant Professor Center for International Studies, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CEI-IUL) September 2020 Robot citizenship and women's rights: the case of Sophia the robot in Saudi Arabia Joana Vilela Fernandes Master in International Studies Supervisor: PhD, Giulia Daniele, Integrated Researcher and Guest Assistant Professor Center for International Studies, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CEI-IUL) September 2020 Acknowledgments I would like to express my great appreciation to my parents and to my sister for the continuous moral support and motivation given during my entire studies and especially during quarantine as well as the still ongoing pandemic. I am also particularly grateful to my supervisor, Giulia Daniele, for all the provided assistance, fundamental advice, kindness and readiness to help throughout the research and writing process of my thesis. v vi Resumo Em 2017, a Arábia Saudita declarou Sophia, um robô humanoide, como cidadão Saudita oficial. Esta decisão voltou a realçar os problemas de desigualdade de género no país e levou a várias discussões relativamente a direitos das mulheres, já que o Reino é conhecido por ainda ser um país conservativo e tradicionalmente patriarcal, ter fortes valores religiosos e continuar a não tratar as mulheres de forma igualitária. Por outras palavras, este caso é particularmente paradoxal por causa da negação ativa de direitos humanos às mulheres, da sua falta de plena cidadania e da concessão simultânea deste estatuto a um ser não humano com aparência feminina. -
An Affective Computational Model for Machine Consciousness
An affective computational model for machine consciousness Rohitash Chandra Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics Research Group, Software Foundation, Nausori, Fiji Abstract In the past, several models of consciousness have become popular and have led to the development of models for machine con- sciousness with varying degrees of success and challenges for simulation and implementations. Moreover, affective computing attributes that involve emotions, behavior and personality have not been the focus of models of consciousness as they lacked moti- vation for deployment in software applications and robots. The affective attributes are important factors for the future of machine consciousness with the rise of technologies that can assist humans. Personality and affection hence can give an additional flavor for the computational model of consciousness in humanoid robotics. Recent advances in areas of machine learning with a focus on deep learning can further help in developing aspects of machine consciousness in areas that can better replicate human sensory per- ceptions such as speech recognition and vision. With such advancements, one encounters further challenges in developing models that can synchronize different aspects of affective computing. In this paper, we review some existing models of consciousnesses and present an affective computational model that would enable the human touch and feel for robotic systems. Keywords: Machine consciousness, cognitive systems, affective computing, consciousness, machine learning 1. Introduction that is not merely for survival. They feature social attributes such as empathy which is similar to humans [12, 13]. High The definition of consciousness has been a major challenge level of curiosity and creativity are major attributes of con- for simulating or modelling human consciousness [1,2]. -
An New Type of Artificial Brain Using Controlled Neurons
New Developments in Neural Networks, J. R. Burger An New Type Of Artificial Brain Using Controlled Neurons John Robert Burger, Emeritus Professor, ECE Department, California State University Northridge, [email protected] Abstract -- Plans for a new type of artificial brain are possible because of realistic neurons in logically structured arrays of controlled toggles, one toggle per neuron. Controlled toggles can be made to compute, in parallel, parameters of critical importance for each of several complex images recalled from associative long term memory. Controlled toggles are shown below to amount to a new type of neural network that supports autonomous behavior and action. I. INTRODUCTION A brain-inspired system is proposed below in order to demonstrate the utility of electrically realistic neurons as controlled toggles. Plans for artificial brains are certainly not new [1, 2]. As in other such systems, the system below will monitor external information, analogous to that flowing from eyes, ears and other sensors. If the information is significant, for instance, bright spots, or loud passages, or if identical information is presented several times, it will automatically be committed to associative long term memory; it will automatically be memorized. External information is concurrently impressed on a short term memory, which is a logical row of short term memory neurons. From here cues are derived and held long enough to accomplish a search of associative long term memory. Unless the cues are very exacting indeed, several returned images are expected. Each return then undergoes calculations for priority; an image with maximum priority is imposed on (and overwrites the current contents of) short term memory.