The Cognitive Cycle

How can we understand the cognitive cycle, and how can we use it to make intelligent systems more than a collection of algorithms?

Join us when computer scientist John F. Sowa visits the Humanomics Open Research Seminars.

In the twenty years from first grade to a PhD, students never learn any subject by the methods for which machine-learning algorithms have been designed.

Those algorithms are useful for analyzing large volumes of data. But they don’t enable a computer system to learn a language as quickly and accurately as a three-year-old child. They’re not even as effective as a mother raccoon teaching her babies how to find the best garbage cans. For all animals, learning is integrated with the cognitive cycle from perception to purposeful action. Many algorithms are needed to support that cycle. But an intelligent system must be more than a collection of algorithms. It must integrate them in a cognitive cycle of perception, learning, reasoning, and action.

That cycle is key to designing intelligent systems.

Speaker

John Florian Sowa is an American computer scientist, an expert in artificial intelligence and computer design, and the inventor of conceptual graphs.

Sowa has spent most of his professional career at IBM, which started in 1962 at IBM's applied mathematics group. Over the decades he has researched and developed emerging fields of computer science from compiler, programming languages, and system architecture to artificial intelligence and knowledge representation.

In 2001, Sowa cofounded VivoMind Intelligence, Inc. With this company he is developing data-mining and database technology, more specific high-level "ontologies" for artificial intelligence and automated natural language understanding.

Humanomics Open Research Seminars

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