ITR---Reinventing Artificial Intelligence

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The Genesis Group of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is workingon a computational theory of human intelligence. Their work is grounded intwo key assumptions: first, that humans think with their language, vision,and motor systems, and their interaction; and second that humans can thinkabstractly because they can build on a foundation of thinking about concreteevents in the physical world.Their plan includes the development of a testbed that features paths,agents, causes, both language and visual inputs and outputs, complex statetransitions, and support for abstract reasoning in abstract worlds.They propose to exploit both symbolic and nonsymbolic representations. Thesymbolic representations will include a representation for describing themovement of animals and artifacts along trajectories and a representationfor describing state transitions in terms of a vocabulary of qualitativechanges. The nonsymbolic representations will include memory traces lyingclose to experienced sensory inputs.The Genesis Group expects success to lead not only to a betterunderstanding of natural intelligence buy also, in the long term, toimportant practical results, such as computer applications with genuinecommonsense and educational applications that exploit an understanding ofhow best to engage human linguistic and visual problem solving faculties.