Cognitive Systems – A Definition Flashcards
Cognition
The process involved in knowing, or the act of knowing, which in its completeness
includes perception and judgment. Cognition includes all processes of consciousness by
which knowledge is accumulated, such as perceiving, recognizing, conceiving, and
reasoning.
System
A regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole. A group of devices or artificial objects or an organization forming a network especially for distributing something or serving a common purpose.
The Purpose of Cognition
Cognition as a Mechanism of Active, Self-Reliant, and Autonomous Behavior. Cognition enables a system to operate in a meaningful way beyond its original pre-programmed behavior and specification. Cognition is an essential prerequisite for a system’s autonomy.
The Robotics Paradox
The welding task is well-defined. The shopping task is ill-defined.
Cognitive System - Definition
A cognitive system is an autonomous system that can
perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate
the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to
changing circumstances.
Cognition vs Intelligence
Cognition is a global process at the system level that integrates many different processing modalities. Special cognitive skills such as intelligence, learning, memory, interaction, etc. are constituents and synergies of a cognitive system
Components of a Cognitive System
Environment, Body (Situatedness, Constraints, Interaction, Embodiment (Brain)), Other Agents
The Cycle of Cognitive Processing
Perception -> Cognition -> (Anticipation -> Assimilation -> Adaption ->) -> Action
Cognitive Capabilities
Self-Reliance, Perception & Action, Adaption
Turing Test
In the test, player A is replaced by a computer that tries to make the interrogator believe that it is the woman. The computer passes the test when it manages to deceive the interrogator as often as the man
Chinese Room Argument
Experiment by philosopher John Searle which states that a computer cannot think even if it passes the Turing test. The room contains an archive with rules that map Chinese characters to appropriate Chinese responses
The Uncanny Valley
The Uncanny Valley phenomenon states that a steady increase in “human likeness” of a robot does not yield a steady increase of familiarity to humans
