Non-Symbolic Artifical Intelligence

Emmet Spier, 5C13 x3594 emmet@cogs.sussex.ac.uk
Office Hour : Thursday 3pm-4pm

Also see Inman's [NSAI course web page] 
Preliminary Non-Symbolic AI lecture schedule
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1  : Admin, Historical context           E
2  : Anti-Representation, Alife context  I

3  : GAs part 1                          I
4  : GAs part 2                          I
5  : Learning & plasticity part 1        E

6  : Learning & plasticity part 2        E
7  : Learning & plasticity part 3        E
8  : Robot/subsumption                   I

9  : Evolutionary Robotics               I
10 : Communication part 1                E
11 : Communication part 2                E

12 : Dynamical Systems                   I
13 : Co-evolution                        I
14 : Active vision                       E
[2003 course handout] Lecture times and place, seminar details, book list, assessment deadlines etc

Coursework Details

[Coursework handout (ps)] (and for your interest, an [Appendix (ps)] explaining the model).
Files described in the coursework [CartPole.java] (or you could use [cart_pole.c] and [cart_pole.h]).
Seminar details

Preliminary details at Inman's [NSAI course web page]

Reference for first lecture
Brooks, R. (1991) Intelligence without reason. In Proceedings of the IJCAI91. Also MIT AI Memo 1293 [ps] or [pdf]. Well worth reading.
Relevant links

Sutton and Barto. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. This link has the full text of the book.

Harnad, Stevan (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem Physica D 42: 335-346.

Rodney Brooks' publications (Subsumption architecture, COG) [recommendations: A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot (the first paper); Elephants Don't Play Chess (good); A Robot That Walks: Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network (Gengis)

A very extensive online 'Artifical Life' biblograph of papers. An excellent research resource

An interesting application of Kohonen Networks to classifying new group articles

Exam papers can be found [here]