EECS 395 Human-level AI

Syllabus

Week 1: Big Bets

4/6/10

• Newell, A. 1973. You can't play 20 questions with nature and win. In W. Chase (Ed.), Visual Information Processing.
• McCarthy, J. 2007. From here to human-level AI. Artificial Intelligence 171, 1174-1182

4/8/10

• Nilsson, N. 2005. Human-level Artificial Intelligence? Be Serious! AI Magazine
• • Cohen, P. 2005. If not Turing's test, then what? AI Magazine

Week 2: Skill-oriented cognitive architectures

4/13/10

• Langley, P., Laird, J., Rogers, S. 2008. Cognitive Architectures: Research issues and Challenges. Cognitive Systems Research
• Laird, J. E. (2008). Extending the Soar Cognitive Architecture. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08).

4/15/10

• Anderson, J. R., Bothell, D., Byrne, M. D., Douglass, S., Lebiere, C., & Qin, Y . (2004). An integrated theory of the mind. Psychological Review 111, (4). 1036-1060.
• Lebiere, C., O'Reilly, R., Jilk, D., Taatgen, N., and Anderson, J. 2008. The SAL integrated cognitive architecture. AAAI Fall Symposium Technical Report FS-08-04.

Week 3: Higher-order cognition in cognitive architectures

4/20/10

• Cassimatis, N., Bello, P., Langley, P. 2008. Ability, breadth, and parsimony in computational models of higher-order cognition. Cognitive Science 32(8) pp 1304-1322.
• Cassimatis, N. 2006. A cognitive substrate for achieving human-level intelligence. AI Magazine. 27(2), 45-56.

4/22/10

• Langley, P. 2006. Cognitive architectures and general intelligent systems. AI Magazine 27(2), 33-44
• Baars, B., & Franklin, S. 2003. How conscious experience and working memory interact. Trends in Cognitive Science 7(4), 166-172.