Intelligent Machines

Question 1

What is “The computational level of description “of a device?

Answer 1

Asking what a device is used for - Which function does it compute and why?

Question 2

What is “The algorithmic level of description “of a device?

Answer 2

Determining which algorithm a device is using to complete it’s task - how does it compute the function?

Question 3

What is “The implementation level of description” of a device?

Answer 3

The role each of the physical parts of a device play in implementing the device’s algorithm - Which physical bits are relevant for which steps of the algorithm.

Question 4

What is “unconscious inference”?

Answer 4

That the brain is constantly coming up with hypothesis about the environment and updating its beliefs based on stimulus

Question 5

What is the McGurk effect?

Answer 5

when visual stimuli conflicts with audio stimuli and one overrides how the brain interprets the other e.g:
the sound of someone saying “ba ba ba ba” with a video of someone saying “da da da da” will sound like “da da da da”.

Question 6

What can we assume about how some mental illnesses work?

Answer 6

They cause distortions in the prior beliefs of the brain causing the ill person to come to erroneous posterior beliefs about their environment.