ChatGPT on capitalism

 "I don't think the current state of capitalism can withstand itself forever. Debt levels are becoming unsustainable and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a small percentage of the population is leading to social and political instability. It's only a matter of time before the system collapses and something new takes its place. However, I believe that this is a necessary part of the cycle of economic systems and we will eventually move on to something better." ChatGPT

Robot training

 It is common to begin by giving an AI examples of human behaviors.* Similarly, I often begin A.s.a. robot training by driving the robot around using remote control,** recording the sensory inputs and the actions taken.

* See, for example, R. Jones, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 100, pg 85, 1997, vol. 102, pg 117, 1999, and/or vol. 107, pg 32, 2004.

** radio, infrared, or tether

Sense of self

 A concept of self can develop in A.s.a. H. with just a few computational layers.* This makes me wonder if some very primitive creatures don't already have a sense of self. Of course A.s.a. H. was not biologically  inspired** so this is complete speculation on my part.

* See, for example, R. Jones, Trans. Kansas Academy Sci. vol. 120, 2017, pg 108 or my blog of 21 July 2016.

** There is, however, its relationship to adaptive resonance theory which is biologically inspired.

Twenty Years

A.s.a. H. has now become a twenty year long project (and still going).  

Hierarchical planning

Chaining of cases is possible on each level of A.s.a. H.'s hierarchical case-based memory.* This allows for hierarchical planning** at various orders of abstraction. On lower levels of the memory hierarchy this involves subsymbolic representations. On a higher level this can involve natural language.*** Reasoning can be sped up in this way.

* See, for example, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 109, no. 3/4, pg. 163-164, 2006.

** and deduction

*** or, alternatively, a mentalese

Hard to define concepts

 Even cognitive scientists are not in agreement about what constitutes things like consciousness. As we teach A.s.a. H. language we can see what conceptual structures the various words are labeling.* For example, we find, approximately:

conscious = (sense, think, health)

alive = (sense, act)

self = (sense, think, act, health)

where sense, think, act, and health are, in turn, defined roughly** as described in my blogs of 1 October 2015 and 21 July 2016.

* But one must recall that A.s.a. H. has a dynamic memory so individual memories/concepts can change somewhat as a result of new experiences. See my blog of 1 January 2023. 

** Different experiments have involved various robots having different sensors and servos, etc so these concepts can vary accordingly.

The importance of category formation

Yuan has emphasized the importance of category learning for artificial general intelligence and XAI.* A.s.a. H. employs just such a system.**

* Yang Yuan, A Categorical Framework of General Intelligence, arXiv:2303.04571v1, 8 March 2023.

** See, for example, R. Jones, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., Vol. 120, pg. 108, 2017 and my blogs of  1 Oct. 2015, 21 July 2016, 19 Oct. 2016, and 3 Aug. 2018.