Grand Challenges of Computer Science: Mind and Brain Architecture
- The UKCRC is sponsoring Grand Challenges of Computer Science
and one of these is Mind and Brain Architecture
- I'm participating along with Soodamani Ramalingam and
Usama Hassan who are teaching at Middlesex and some others
there.
- The challenge is being led by Aaron Sloman, and it seems
the goal will be a robot with the abilities of a 3-year old.
- We feel that the best way to do this is to start with
biologically viable neurons.
- So we're going to start with a virtual robot, and
see if we can get it to do sensical things.
- We'll then move onto a real robot, though not the full-fledged
3-year old.
- We hope that this neural programming will give us a better
blackboard and enable us to solve these problems coherently.
- I'm lining up a PhD student (Prem Patel) to start on the
vision problem. We'll probably start with some word recognition
work, the EXIT task.
