Posts in 2008
Embodiment vs. Memetics

Joanna J. Bryson, in Mind & Society, 7(1):77-94, May 2008.

Discusses the importance of the discovery that human-like semantics can be learned simply from observing large corpora, with ramifications for the evolution of language. The final version is from November 2007, here is a penultimate draft (pdf) from August for those who do not subscribe, although it has a couple gaffs in it.

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The Impact of Durative State on Action Selection (pdf)

Joanna J. Bryson, appeared in Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior at the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia at Stanford in March.

This is a somewhat pedantic overview of the improvements we’ve made to BOD, POSH and of course AI action selection in general in the last three years, with an eye to pleasing the EPSRC since my grant with the same title just ran out. Final version from January 2008.

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