Draft and Unfinished Papers
These papers date from my time in research in BT's Complex Systems Laboratory, quickly sketching out positions in specific areas with a view to eventual re-crafting into more extended, carefully argued articles.
Related to Robots Workshop (IWRC '98):
Available also from the pages under 'BT International Workshop on Robot Cognition', the following papers advocate particular strategies in robotics research:
- 'The Chemistry Analogy' -- Building complicated and difficult to analyse robots bears a relationship to building simpler and analysable robots which is akin to the relationship between chemistry and quantum mechanics.
- 'Why Robots? Why Self Awareness?' -- Notes on the advantages of conducting cognition research specifically using real embodied robots as well as thoughts on why one might aim specifically for self awareness.
- 'What is Self Awareness?' -- Comments on self awareness in the context of robotics and an introduction to the notion of self models.
- 'Some Objections/Replies on Self Awareness and Self Models' -- Clarifications and notes on some simple objections to the paper introducing self models.
- 'Isn't This (Just) AI?' -- Four factors which differentiate the approach I have suggested from traditional AI.
Analogue Computation:
Bounded Rationality
The paper below doesn't really fit within the category of literature normally dubbed 'bounded rationality', but nonetheless that is the phrase which seems to describe it best.
Intelligence Measures:
The only other materials I've made available at this stage include a short series of papers written after a debate with my BT colleagues Chris Winter and Alan Steventon about possible metrics for quantifying intelligence or computational power.
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