Yeah, Patrick Henry Winston was a great AI professor at MIT pre-neural net. He's in my library. I used his then-era textbook (and others) before the Norvig and Russell book.
These books though are more about general symbolic processing in AI than about synthesizing minds / mind systems. The works of John Sowa have been very helpful because they analyze the nature of conceptual knowledge and that is the core of mind synthesis.
Amazingly, (of all people!) Ayn Rand actually wrote a book useful for AI back in her era! It was about her Objectivist philosophy and it codified the nature of knowledge! Before I discovered it I had written a book on theory of knowledge and I found she matched many main points! Also today's vector representations of knowledge (arrays of attributes) use the same elements.
I've been writing a 10 volume series on how to synthesize cognitive systems using both symbolic and NN processing. I acknowledge Winston in it as a pioneer of mid-stage modern AI.
Dr. Stephen Kosslyn (?) Image and mind or might be vision and the mind (it's been a long time since I've read that book) explores how the mind processes and stores images. I'm sure there is much more up to date work than those 2, but I'm in my 60's now and they were the leaders in their fields not too long ago
There has been an explosion of works in recent years - some good and some lousy. I have a bunch of books on mental imaging and have not been satisfied with them, so I've evolved a special architecture for it I believe is novel in the field. It uses a mental whiteboard for data and modeling and a mind's eye that applies perception viewpoints to extract meaning from it. On the output side I reverse that and the mind's eye applies styles to output to the mental whiteboard. There's much more complication to it than that, but anyway it works very well for generative AI.
I live where all the autonomous vehicle r&d is done and I see better approaches than their perception frameworks. Heh, I'm just down the street from Fremont Tesla and used to be near pony.ai and saw their test vehicles all the time on slower streets. This is an exciting time to be here.
I have a hard back copy of this book. Well worth the time to read it. I've had it for many years. I really do feel he has a good grasp on the way we store and process images
Have you studied the works of the late Patrick Winston?
Yeah, Patrick Henry Winston was a great AI professor at MIT pre-neural net. He's in my library. I used his then-era textbook (and others) before the Norvig and Russell book.
These books though are more about general symbolic processing in AI than about synthesizing minds / mind systems. The works of John Sowa have been very helpful because they analyze the nature of conceptual knowledge and that is the core of mind synthesis.
Amazingly, (of all people!) Ayn Rand actually wrote a book useful for AI back in her era! It was about her Objectivist philosophy and it codified the nature of knowledge! Before I discovered it I had written a book on theory of knowledge and I found she matched many main points! Also today's vector representations of knowledge (arrays of attributes) use the same elements.
I've been writing a 10 volume series on how to synthesize cognitive systems using both symbolic and NN processing. I acknowledge Winston in it as a pioneer of mid-stage modern AI.
Dr. Stephen Kosslyn (?) Image and mind or might be vision and the mind (it's been a long time since I've read that book) explores how the mind processes and stores images. I'm sure there is much more up to date work than those 2, but I'm in my 60's now and they were the leaders in their fields not too long ago
There has been an explosion of works in recent years - some good and some lousy. I have a bunch of books on mental imaging and have not been satisfied with them, so I've evolved a special architecture for it I believe is novel in the field. It uses a mental whiteboard for data and modeling and a mind's eye that applies perception viewpoints to extract meaning from it. On the output side I reverse that and the mind's eye applies styles to output to the mental whiteboard. There's much more complication to it than that, but anyway it works very well for generative AI. I live where all the autonomous vehicle r&d is done and I see better approaches than their perception frameworks. Heh, I'm just down the street from Fremont Tesla and used to be near pony.ai and saw their test vehicles all the time on slower streets. This is an exciting time to be here.
https://archive.org/details/imagebrainresolu0000koss/mode/1up
I have a hard back copy of this book. Well worth the time to read it. I've had it for many years. I really do feel he has a good grasp on the way we store and process images