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The artificial intelligence story fueled a massive rally in tech. But it’s far from over. In fact, as AI revolutionizes just about every industry out there, it could create a $1.81 trillion opportunity, says Grand View Research. Also, according ...

The artificial intelligence story fueled a massive rally in tech. But it’s far from over. In fact, as AI revolutionizes just about every industry out there, it could create a $1.81 trillion opportunity, says Grand View Research. Also, according ...

14.12.2022 - White paper describes novel approach to machine intelligence that underpins VERSES platformVANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - VERSES Technologies Inc. (NEO:VERS) (OTCQX:VRSSF) (VERSES or the Company”), a cognitive ... Seite 1

Renowned theoretical neuroscientist and leading authority on brain imaging to lead VERSES research and application of Active Inference...

Over the last fifteen years, an ambitious explanatory framework has been proposed to unify explanations across biology and cognitive science. Active inference, whose most famous tenet is the free energy principle, has inspired excitement and confusion in equal measure. Here, we lay the ground for proper critical analysis of active inference, in three ways. First, we give simplified versions of its core mathematical models. Second, we outline the historical development of active inference and its...

Biological agents can act in ways that express a sensitivity to context-dependent relevance. So far it has proven difficult to engineer this capacity for context-dependent sensitivity to relevance in artificial agents. We give this problem the label the “problem of meaning”. The problem of meaning could be circumvented if artificial intelligence researchers were to design agents based on the assumption of the continuity of life and mind. In this paper, we focus on the proposal made by enacti...

Cognitive niche construction is the process whereby organisms create and maintain cause–effect models of their niche as guides for fitness influencing behavior. Extended mind theory claims that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain to include predictable states of the world. Active inference and predictive processing in cognitive science assume that organisms embody predictive (i.e., generative) models of the world optimized by standard cognitive functions (e.g., perception, action, lear...

This paper aims to provide a theoretical framework for explaining the subjective character of pain experience in terms of what we will call ‘embodied predictive processing’. The predictive processing (PP) theory is a family of views that take perception, action, emotion and cognition to all work together in the service of prediction error minimisation. In this paper we propose an embodied perspective on the PP theory we call the ‘embodied predictive processing (EPP) theory. The EPP theory ...