2016 — Publications — Joanna Bryson

On the Reliability of Unreliable Information: Gossip as Cultural Memory

Dominic Mitchell, Joanna J. Bryson, Paul Rauwolf, and Gordon Ingram, Interaction Studies, 17:1 pp. 1–25, 2016.

There’s a tradeoff between how fast gossip spreads vs problems with its potential for corruption: it can be a lot more useful than direct experience if it spreads faster than that experience and there isn’t too much false information. Actually, in the real world gossip may give you more information than your perception, but that’s not one of the things we deal with here. This work was actually done prior to (and informed) our 2015 article Value Homophily Benefits Cooperation But Motivates Employing Incorrect Social Information, but took longer to get out for a few reasons. Open access draft.

A Modular Approach to Learning Manipulation Strategies From Human Demonstration

Bidan Huang, Miao Li, Ravin Luis De Souza, Joanna J. Bryson, and Aude Billard, Autonomous Robots, 40(5): 903-927, 2016.

Precise manipulation (e.g. opening bottle caps) on real robots using social learning via contact sensors. Published online October 2015, in print June 2016. Open access available from authors, or Bath one day I hope.

2016ScienceSitesMay 10, 2020Systems Engineering

Simulation and the Evolution of Thought

Joanna J. Bryson, short book section in the collection Memory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Sebastian Groes. From Part IV Memory and the Future (pdf), 2016.

I made unacknowledged contributions to this part introduction too. Open access version (pdf).

The Confabulation of Self

Joanna J. Bryson, short book section in the collection Memory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Sebastian Groes. From Part VI, Twenty-First Century Subjectivities (pdf), 2016.

I made unacknowledged contributions to this part introduction too. Open access version (pdf).

Trust Communication, and Inequality

Joanna J. Bryson & Paul Rauwolf, from The 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 10-13 August 2016 in Philadelphia, PA.

Reviews Paul’s awesome work on understanding why it’s adaptive to both have blind faith in others in your community, yet refuse to cooperate with those making unfair but mutually-beneficial offers.

What Does the Robot Think? Transparency as a Fundamental Design Requirement for Intelligent Systems (pdf)

Robert H Wortham, Andreas Theodorou, Joanna J Bryson, IJCAI-2016 Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Workshop.

Our first experiments on making robot intelligence more transparent.

2016ScienceSitesMay 10, 2020Ethics and Policy

A Role for Action Selection in Consciousness: An Investigation of a Second-Order Darwinian Mind

Robert H. Wortham and Joanna J. Bryson, in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, published December 2016.

The title references my earlier paper, A Role for Consciousness in Action Selection in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness 4(2):471-482, which I’m not sure is well enough known to take the confusion of the joke, but this paper has a fun model of selection for metacognition, mostly by Rob.

2016ScienceSitesMay 10, 2020Systems Engineering, Consciousness

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Dominic Mitchell, Joanna J. Bryson, Paul Rauwolf, and Gordon Ingram, Interaction Studies, 17:1 pp. 1–25, 2016.

Bidan Huang, Miao Li, Ravin Luis De Souza, Joanna J. Bryson, and Aude Billard, Autonomous Robots, 40(5): 903-927, 2016.

Joanna J. Bryson, short book section in the collection Memory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Sebastian Groes. From Part IV Memory and the Future (pdf), 2016.

Joanna J. Bryson, short book section in the collection Memory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Sebastian Groes. From Part VI, Twenty-First Century Subjectivities (pdf), 2016.

Joanna J. Bryson & Paul Rauwolf, from The 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 10-13 August 2016 in Philadelphia, PA.

Robert H Wortham, Andreas Theodorou, Joanna J Bryson, IJCAI-2016 Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Workshop.

Robert H. Wortham and Joanna J. Bryson, in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, published December 2016.

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