Author Presentation "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" by Antonio Lieto PhD

There has long been a tension in AI between:

1. The perceived need to use the human mind as the primary source of an AI's design on the strong argument that the mind is best model of intelligence and is therefore likely to produce the best AI and,

2. The practical need to produce and sell AI applications using whatever means are available that do the trick. Whether the AI's design is inspired by the mind or not is secondary to the practical needs of the users who might not care what happens behind the scenes.

In "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" (published April 2021 by Routledge) Lieto argues in favor of the first strategy.

As stated in Routledge's book description:

"Introducing a unique perspective that draws upon Cybernetics and early AI principles, Lieto emphasizes the need for an equivalence between cognitive processes and implemented AI procedures, in order to realize biologically and cognitively inspired artificial minds."

Lieto introduces a means of quantifying the degree to which an AI conforms to the structural principles of the mind (again from the book description):

"He also introduces the Minimal Cognitive Grid, a pragmatic method to rank the different degrees of biological and cognitive accuracy of artificial systems in order to project and predict their explanatory power with respect to the natural systems taken as a source of inspiration."

Click here for a full description of the book including reviews:
https://www.routledge.com/Cognitive-Design-for-Artificial-Minds/Lieto/p/book/9781138207950

The Northwest AGI Forum is pleased and honored to welcome ACM Distinguished Speaker Dr. Antonio Lieto. Regulars of this meetup will recall that one of Lieto's papers formed the centerpiece of our meetup "Concepts" (see: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15My62ITD_VlmdKFcMDmgtXXKo71ZUj2k?usp=sharing). We anticipate an introduction to the book by Dr. Lieto of about 20 minutes and then we will have Q&A for the remainder of the hour.

Biography

Antonio Lieto is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin, Italy, and a research associate at the ICAR-CNR in Palermo, Italy. He is the current Vice-President of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (2017–2022) and an ACM Distinguished Speaker on the topics of cognitively inspired AI and artificial models of cognition.