Connectionists: Deep Belief Nets (2006) / Neural History Compressor (1991) or Hierarchical Temporal Memory (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Richard Loosemore]

To say nothing of the conceptual primitives in Roger Schank's work....

("Dynamic memory:  A theory of reminding  and learning in computers and 
people" 1982).


On 2/12/14, 9:24 AM, Kelley, Troy D CIV (US) wrote:
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>     Or taken seriously the nativist arguments of Chomsky, Pinker, and Spelke
>     and tried to build a robot that is innately endowed with concepts like
>     "person", "object", "set", and "place"?
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> I am working on this now.  We had been using concepts from ConceptNet (from
> MIT), but I think it might be better to built concepts around a set of
> conceptual primitives.
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> By the way there is some great work by Jean Mandler on conceptual
> primitives.  Her book the "Foundations of Mind: Origins of Conceptual
> Thought" is fascinating.  I have been actively pursuing the idea of building
> a mind using primitives.  This is the same idea that Irving Beiderman uses
> for object recognition - that objects are visual primitives used by the
> visual system (cubes, cylinders).  This idea can be extended to language,
> both written (letters) and spoken (phonemes).  The idea of using primitives
> can reduce the computation complexity of many problems.  As Mandler puts it,
> many complex cognitive reasoning tasks are really built out of more
> conceptual primitives - especially ones based on movement.  For example,
> "The Germans ousted the French during WWII" is a rather complex statement,
> but is thought of as a movement based concept - the Germans replaced the
> French in some space.  There are many other examples of these movement based
> primitives which inform thought - "he is moving up in the world" or "He is
> down and out" or "He is going down".  All of these might be complex ideas
> but they are represented as movement based conceptual primitives.
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> Troy Kelley
> Cognitive Robotics Team Leader
> Human Research and Engineering Directorate
> Army Research Laboratory
> Aberdeen, MD, 21005
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> Troy Kelley
> Cognitive Robotics Team Leader
> Human Research and Engineering Directorate
> Army Research Laboratory
> Aberdeen, MD, 21005
> V: 410-278-5869
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