Connectionists: Call for Proposals: BMI Machine Conscious Learning Project

[Juyang Weng]

Ever since humankind came into being, holistic mechanisms of Natural
General Intelligence (NGI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have
been elusive. For example, the Third World Science and Technology
Development Forum Nov. 6-7, 2021 published "The Ten Scientific Problems for
the Development of Human Society for 2021". The No. 1 Problem in the
information domain is "what are the mechanisms for human brains to process
information and for generating human intelligence?" Many machine learning
experts hoped that NGI and AGI can be modeled by, or achieved by, training
increasingly larger neural networks on increasingly larger data sets that
are static.  Unfortunately, such approaches are categorically hopeless for
AGI, not only because of the alleged Post Selection protocol flaws.  but
something much deeper and more fundamental. The recent discovery of
Conscious Learning by Weng 2022 revealed a surprising principle, namely
consciousness is recursively necessary across every time instant of
learning by humans and machines in order to reach their NGI and AGI at each
corresponding mental age.

BMI, the Brain-Mind Institute, is pleased to announce a funded Project,
called BMI Conscious Machine Learning Project, for all those who are
interested. This announcement calls for professors, graduate students, and
undergraduate students to apply for an appropriate position in the Project.
The open positions include the following three categories:

   1. *Research advisors*: There are four categories, assistant professors,
   associate professors, full professors and retired professors, corresponding
   to your current rank. The responsibilities include advising local students.
   It is desirable that each professor recruits a few of his students locally.
   Send your CV to BMI with the names, affiliations and contact information of
   the students who will submit applications in association with you. Each BMI
   paid student will correspond a part of budget for his research advisor.
   2. *Graduate students: *There are two categories, PhD program and MS
   program. Each student is expected to spend at least 10 hours each week
   during his university semesters and 40 hours each week during summer. The
   student's time spent on the projects will be paid by BMI at a rate suited
   for his own country. Each applicant should identify a local research
   advisor who supervises the project on a weekly basis. If you are a graduate
   student in a university and are interested in applying for the Project,
   find a professor in your local university who can supervise you. Ask him to
   jointly apply for a professor position at the Project. You two should name
   each other in the applications. Send your CV and official transcripts
   during the undergraduate years and the graduate years.
   3. *Undergraduate students: *There are four categories, freshmen,
   sophomore, junior and senior, corresponding to your year in your home
   university. Other requirements are similar to the Graduate student category.

Admission terms: summer session 2022 or fall 2022. Specify your preferred
starting summer date and fall date, as each country has a different date.

Send your filled application form
<http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/ApplicationForm-BMI-2022.doc>, your
application and supporting material to juyang.weng at gmail.com with a
subject: Application: BMI Conscious Machine Learning Project.

*Important dates:*
*January 15, 2022:* Deadline for application
*March 15, 2022:* Notice of admission
http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/program-summer.html

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Juyang (John) Weng
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