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Title | Made-up minds: a constructivist approach to artificial intelligence |
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Creators | Drescher Gary L. |
Organization | IEEE Xplore (Online Service); MIT Press |
Imprint | Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England: MIT Press, 2003 |
Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств; Общая коллекция |
Subjects | Информация — Обработка; Искусственный интеллект; психология; философия; MIT Press eBooks Library |
UDC | 004.8 |
LBC | 87; 88 |
Document type | Other |
File type | Other |
Language | English |
Rights | Доступ по паролю из сети Интернет (чтение, печать) |
Record key | 6267387 |
Record create date | 12/23/2015 |
Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's theory as a source of inspiration for the design of an artificial cognitive system called the schema mechanism, and then uses the system to elaborate and test Piaget's theory. The approach is original enough that readers need not have extensive knowledge of artificial intelligence, and a chapter summarizing Piaget assists readers who lack a background in developmental psychology. The schema mechanism learns from its experiences, expressing discoveries in its existing representational vocabulary, and extending that vocabulary with new concepts. A novel empirical learning technique, marginal attribution, can find results of an action that are obscure because each occurs rarely in general, although reliably under certain conditions. Drescher shows that several early milestones in the Piagetian infant's invention of the concept of persistent object can be replicated by the schema mechanism.
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