Joscha Bach

Author, Principles of Synthetic Intelligence

Joscha Bach is an AI researcher who worked and published about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. He earned his PhD in cognitive science from the University of Osnabruck, Germany, and has built computational models of motivated decision making, perception, categorization, and concept-formation. He is especially interested in the philosophy of AI and in the augmentation of the human mind.

He has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabruck. His book Principles of Synthetic Intelligence (Oxford University Press) is to appear later this year.

His presentation at AGI-08: The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence was entitled "Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence." The talk touched on lessons from the past five decades of AI that could be useful in directing the development of research into general, humanlike synthetic intelligence. He described aspects of the MicroPsi agent architecture, based on the Psi theory of Dietrich Dorner, as an approach to the interaction of emotion, motivation and cognition of situated agents.

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Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence

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March 2008, AGI-08, Overview of AGI Panel Discussion