Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows by AMP von Bayern et al in Nature 24 October 2018
Yet another example of intelligence from the New Caledonian crow. A favourite for researchers, New...
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Category: TSR ACADEMIC PAPERS
The attentional requirements of consciousness by MA Cohen et al in Trends in Cognitive Sciences August 2012
Attention needed for consciousness, not vice versa. Is attention synonymous with consciousness?...
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Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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Building Machines that Learn and Think for Themselves by M Botvinick et al in Behavioural and Brain Sciences 2017
Homing in on the conceptual design of a thinking machine. There is growing agreement all round on...
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Imagination-augmented agents for deep reinforcement learning by T Weber, S Racaniere, DP Reichert et al 19 July 2017
Planning strategies in the real world takes imagination. A team at DeepMind has developed an...
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Equilibrium Propagation: Bridging the Gap between Energy-Based Models and Backpropagation by B Scellier and Y Bengio in Front. Comput. Neurosci. 4 May 2017
Could equilibrium propagation be nature’s way of doing backpropagation? This paper is absolutely...
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Theory of a machine’s mind by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 3 March 2018
AIs can now understand, or at least read, other AIs’ minds. DeepMind’s new Theory of Mind-net AI...
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Optimization as a model for few-shot learning by S Ravi and H Larochelle at ICLR 2017
Interesting new research on how to effect few-shot learning. AI researchers are making progress in...
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A New, Better BET: Rescuing Basic Emotion Theory by D D Hutto et al 2018
Basic and non-basic emotions: more research needed. This is a thought-provoking paper on the state...
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What is “the unconscious”, and where is it located in the brain? A neuropsychoanalytic perspective by Mark Solms in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 10 July 2017
Turning the ego and the id upside down. Solms rests his theory on the observation that...
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The unbearable automaticity of being by JA Bargh and TL Chartrand in American Psychologist July 1999
The many different facets of the unconscious mind. In a wide-ranging analysis, the authors...
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Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being by DA Oakley and PW Halligan in Frontiers in Psychology 14 November 2017
Excellent on the nature of consciousness. Not convinced about the purpose. Oakley and Halligan...
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AI Safety Gridworlds by J Leike et al on Arxiv Vanity 28 November 2017
DeepMind turns its attention to AI safety. The folks at DeepMind are seeking to contribute to AI...
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Neuronal Prediction of Opponent’s Behavior during Cooperative Social Interchange in Primates by K Haroush and ZM Williams in Cell 12 March 2015
Did theory of mind start here, or somewhere like it? Haroush and Williams derive some interesting...
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Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge by D Silver et al in Nature 19 October 2017
AlphaGo Zero needs no human training at all. AlphaGo Zero is the latest variant of AlphaGo. It has...
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Ravens parallel great apes in flexible planning for tool-use and bartering by C Kabadayi and M Osvath in Science 14 July 2017
Ravens better than 4-year-old children at planning. In a fascinating set of experiments, Kabadayi...
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Language Re-Entrance and the ‘Inner Voice’ by Luc Steels 2003
The brain’s re-entrant connectivity turns lexical language into grammatical language. This paper...
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Consciousness and the social brain by Michael Graziano 2013
Modelling attention is the equivalent of awareness. Graziano is intrigued by the brain’s...
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On agency and body-ownership: Phenomenological and neurocognitive reflections by M Tsakiris et al in Consciousness and Cognition 2007
Unpicking the ties between sense of ownership and sense of agency. This paper expands on growing...
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Neural Circuits Underlying Imitation Learning of Hand Actions: An Event-Related fMRI Study by G Buccino in Neuron 22 April 2004
Insights into true imitation-based learning. The purpose of the mirror neuron system remains in...
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