Humans and animals excel in combining information from multiple sensory modalities, controlling their complex bodies, adapting to growth, failures, or using tools. These capabilities are also highly desirable in robots. They are displayed by machines to some extent - yet, as is so often the case, the artificial creatures are lagging behind. The key foundation is an internal representation of the body that the agent - human, animal, or robot - has developed. In the biological realm, evidence has been accumulated by diverse disciplines giving rise to the concepts of body image, body schema, and others. In robotics, a model of the robot is an indispensable component that enables to control the machine. In this article I compare the character of body representations in biology with their robotic counterparts and relate that to the differences in performance that we observe. I put forth a number of axes regarding the nature of such body models: fixed vs. plastic, amodal vs. modal, explicit vs. implicit, serial vs. parallel, modular vs. holistic, and centralized vs. distributed. An interesting trend emerges: on many of the axes, there is a sequence from robot body models, over body image, body schema, to the body representation in lower animals like the octopus. In some sense, robots have a lot in common with Ian Waterman - "the man who lost his body" - in that they rely on an explicit, veridical body model (body image taken to the extreme) and lack any implicit, multimodal representation (like the body schema) of their bodies. I will then detail how robots can inform the biological sciences dealing with body representations and finally, I will study which of the features of the "body in the brain" should be transferred to robots, giving rise to more adaptive and resilient, self-calibrating machines.
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Humans and animals excel in combining information from multiple sensory modalities, controlling their complex bodies, adapting to growth, failures, or using tools. These capabilities are also highly desirable in robots. They are displayed by machines to some extent. Yet, the artificial creatures are lagging behind. The key foundation is an internal representation of the body that the agent - human, animal, or robot - has developed. The mechanisms of operation of body models in the brain are largely unknown and even less is known about how they are constructed from experience after birth. In collaboration with developmental psychologists, we conducted targeted experiments to understand how infants acquire first "sensorimotor body knowledge". These experiments inform our work in which we construct embodied computational models on humanoid robots that address the mechanisms behind learning, adaptation, and operation of multimodal body representations. At the same time, we assess which of the features of the "body in the brain" should be transferred to robots to give rise to more adaptive and resilient, self-calibrating machines. We extend traditional robot kinematic calibration focusing on self-contained approaches where no external metrology is needed: self-contact and self-observation. Problem formulation allowing to combine several ways of closing the kinematic chain simultaneously is presented, along with a calibration toolbox and experimental validation on several robot platforms. Finally, next to models of the body itself, we study peripersonal space - the space immediately surrounding the body. Again, embodied computational models are developed and subsequently, the possibility of turning these biologically inspired representations into safe human-robot collaboration is studied.
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人类的物体感知能力令人印象深刻,当试图开发具有类似机器人的解决方案时,这变得更加明显。从人类如何将视觉和触觉用于对象感知和相关任务的灵感中,本文总结了机器人应用的多模式对象感知的当前状态。它涵盖了生物学灵感,传感器技术,数据集以及用于对象识别和掌握的感觉数据处理的各个方面。首先,概述了多模式对象感知的生物学基础。然后讨论了传感技术和数据收集策略。接下来,介绍了主要计算方面的介绍,突出显示了每个主要应用领域的一些代表性文章,包括对象识别,传输学习以及对象操纵和掌握。最后,在每个领域的当前进步中,本文概述了有希望的新研究指示。
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Many theories, based on neuroscientific and psychological empirical evidence and on computational concepts, have been elaborated to explain the emergence of consciousness in the central nervous system. These theories propose key fundamental mechanisms to explain consciousness, but they only partially connect such mechanisms to the possible functional and adaptive role of consciousness. Recently, some cognitive and neuroscientific models try to solve this gap by linking consciousness to various aspects of goal-directed behaviour, the pivotal cognitive process that allows mammals to flexibly act in challenging environments. Here we propose the Representation Internal-Manipulation (RIM) theory of consciousness, a theory that links the main elements of consciousness theories to components and functions of goal-directed behaviour, ascribing a central role for consciousness to the goal-directed manipulation of internal representations. This manipulation relies on four specific computational operations to perform the flexible internal adaptation of all key elements of goal-directed computation, from the representations of objects to those of goals, actions, and plans. Finally, we propose the concept of `manipulation agency' relating the sense of agency to the internal manipulation of representations. This allows us to propose that the subjective experience of consciousness is associated to the human capacity to generate and control a simulated internal reality that is vividly perceived and felt through the same perceptual and emotional mechanisms used to tackle the external world.
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建立一种人类综合人工认知系统,即人工综合情报(AGI),是人工智能(AI)领域的圣杯。此外,实现人工系统实现认知发展的计算模型将是脑和认知科学的优秀参考。本文介绍了一种通过集成元素认知模块来开发认知架构的方法,以实现整个模块的训练。这种方法是基于两个想法:(1)脑激发AI,学习人类脑建筑以构建人类级智能,(2)概率的生成模型(PGM)基础的认知系统,为发展机器人开发认知系统通过整合PGM。发展框架称为全大脑PGM(WB-PGM),其根本地不同于现有的认知架构,因为它可以通过基于感官电机信息的系统不断学习。在这项研究中,我们描述了WB-PGM的基本原理,基于PGM的元素认知模块的当前状态,与人类大脑的关系,对认知模块的整合的方法,以及未来的挑战。我们的研究结果可以作为大脑研究的参考。随着PGMS描述变量之间的明确信息关系,本说明书提供了从计算科学到脑科学的可解释指导。通过提供此类信息,神经科学的研究人员可以向AI和机器人提供的研究人员提供反馈,以及目前模型缺乏对大脑的影响。此外,它可以促进神经认知科学的研究人员以及AI和机器人的合作。
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最近围绕语言处理模型的复杂性的最新炒作使人们对机器获得了类似人类自然语言的指挥的乐观情绪。人工智能中自然语言理解的领域声称在这一领域取得了长足的进步,但是,在这方面和其他学科中使用“理解”的概念性清晰,使我们很难辨别我们实际上有多近的距离。目前的方法和剩余挑战的全面,跨学科的概述尚待进行。除了语言知识之外,这还需要考虑我们特定于物种的能力,以对,记忆,标签和传达我们(足够相似的)体现和位置经验。此外,测量实际约束需要严格分析当前模型的技术能力,以及对理论可能性和局限性的更深入的哲学反思。在本文中,我将所有这些观点(哲学,认知语言和技术)团结在一起,以揭开达到真实(人类般的)语言理解所涉及的挑战。通过解开当前方法固有的理论假设,我希望说明我们距离实现这一目标的实际程度,如果确实是目标。
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在本文中,我们在人工代理中介绍了活跃的自我的计算建模叙述。特别是,我们专注于代理人如何配备控制意识以及它在自主位于行动中的方式以及反过来,影响行动控制。我们认为这需要铺设一个体现的认知模型,将自下而上的过程(传感器学习和对控制的细粒度适应)与自上而下的过程(战略选择和决策的认知过程)。我们基于预测处理和自由能量最小化的原理提出了这种概念计算架构。使用此常规模型,我们描述了控制层次结构的级别的控制感以及如何支持在不可预测的环境中的动作控制。我们在模型的实施以及模拟任务场景中的第一评估,其中自主代理必须应对不可预测的情况并经历相应的控制感。我们探讨了不同的型号参数设置,导致不同方式结合低电平和高级动作控制。结果表明,在低/高级动作控制需求的情况下适当加权信息的重要性,并且他们证明了控制的感觉如何促进这一点。
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在过去的几年中,计算机视觉的显着进步总的来说是归因于深度学习,这是由于大量标记数据的可用性所推动的,并与GPU范式的爆炸性增长配对。在订阅这一观点的同时,本书批评了该领域中所谓的科学进步,并在基于信息的自然法则的框架内提出了对愿景的调查。具体而言,目前的作品提出了有关视觉的基本问题,这些问题尚未被理解,引导读者走上了一个由新颖挑战引起的与机器学习基础共鸣的旅程。中心论点是,要深入了解视觉计算过程,有必要超越通用机器学习算法的应用,而要专注于考虑到视觉信号的时空性质的适当学习理论。
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有效推论是一种数学框架,它起源于计算神经科学,作为大脑如何实现动作,感知和学习的理论。最近,已被证明是在不确定性下存在国家估算和控制问题的有希望的方法,以及一般的机器人和人工代理人的目标驱动行为的基础。在这里,我们审查了最先进的理论和对国家估计,控制,规划和学习的积极推断的实现;描述当前的成就,特别关注机器人。我们展示了相关实验,以适应,泛化和稳健性而言说明其潜力。此外,我们将这种方法与其他框架联系起来,并讨论其预期的利益和挑战:使用变分贝叶斯推理具有功能生物合理性的统一框架。
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在流行媒体中,人造代理商的意识出现与同时实现人类或超人水平智力的那些相同的代理之间通常存在联系。在这项工作中,我们探讨了意识和智力之间这种看似直观的联系的有效性和潜在应用。我们通过研究与三种当代意识功能理论相关的认知能力:全球工作空间理论(GWT),信息生成理论(IGT)和注意力模式理论(AST)。我们发现,这三种理论都将有意识的功能专门与人类领域将军智力的某些方面联系起来。有了这个见解,我们转向人工智能领域(AI),发现尽管远未证明一般智能,但许多最先进的深度学习方法已经开始纳入三个功能的关键方面理论。确定了这一趋势后,我们以人类心理时间旅行的激励例子来提出方式,其中三种理论中每种理论的见解都可以合并为一个单一的统一和可实施的模型。鉴于三种功能理论中的每一种都可以通过认知能力来实现这一可能,因此,具有精神时间旅行的人造代理不仅具有比当前方法更大的一般智力,而且还与我们当前对意识功能作用的理解更加一致在人类中,这使其成为AI研究的有希望的近期目标。
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这篇理论文章研究了如何在计算机中构建类似人类的工作记忆和思维过程。应该有两个工作记忆存储,一个类似于关联皮层中的持续点火,另一个类似于大脑皮层中的突触增强。这些商店必须通过环境刺激或内部处理产生的新表示不断更新。它们应该连续更新,并以一种迭代的方式进行更新,这意味着在下一个状态下,应始终保留一组共同工作中的某些项目。因此,工作记忆中的一组概念将随着时间的推移逐渐发展。这使每个状态都是对先前状态的修订版,并导致连续的状态与它们所包含的一系列表示形式重叠和融合。随着添加新表示形式并减去旧表示形式,在这些更改过程中,有些保持活跃几秒钟。这种持续活动,类似于人工复发性神经网络中使用的活动,用于在整个全球工作区中传播激活能量,以搜索下一个关联更新。结果是能够朝着解决方案或目标前进的联想连接的中间状态链。迭代更新在这里概念化为信息处理策略,一种思想流的计算和神经生理决定因素以及用于设计和编程人工智能的算法。
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本文对人机对象切换的文献进行了调查。切换是一种协作的关节动作,其中代理人,给予者,给予对象给另一代理,接收器。当接收器首先与给予者持有的对象并结束时,当给予者完全将物体释放到接收器时,物理交换开始。然而,重要的认知和物理过程在物理交换之前开始,包括在交换的位置和时间内启动隐含协议。从这个角度来看,我们将审核构成了上述事件界定的两个主要阶段:1)预切换阶段和2)物理交流。我们专注于两位演员(Giver和Receiver)的分析,并报告机器人推动者(机器人到人类切换)和机器人接收器(人到机器人切换)的状态。我们举报了常用于评估互动的全面的定性和定量度量列表。虽然将我们的认知水平(例如,预测,感知,运动规划,学习)和物理水平(例如,运动,抓握,抓取释放)的审查重点,但我们简要讨论了安全的概念,社会背景,和人体工程学。我们将在人对人物助手中显示的行为与机器人助手的最新进行比较,并确定机器人助剂的主要改善领域,以达到与人类相互作用相当的性能。最后,我们提出了一种应使用的最小度量标准,以便在方法之间进行公平比较。
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一个令人着迷的假设是,人类和动物的智力可以通过一些原则(而不是启发式方法的百科全书清单)来解释。如果这个假设是正确的,我们可以更容易地理解自己的智能并建造智能机器。就像物理学一样,原理本身不足以预测大脑等复杂系统的行为,并且可能需要大量计算来模拟人类式的智力。这一假设将表明,研究人类和动物所剥削的归纳偏见可以帮助阐明这些原则,并为AI研究和神经科学理论提供灵感。深度学习已经利用了几种关键的归纳偏见,这项工作考虑了更大的清单,重点是关注高级和顺序有意识的处理的工作。阐明这些特定原则的目的是,它们有可能帮助我们建立从人类的能力中受益于灵活分布和系统概括的能力的AI系统,目前,这是一个领域艺术机器学习和人类智力。
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Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as object recognition, video games, and board games, achieving performance that equals or even beats humans in some respects. Despite their biological inspiration and performance achievements, these systems differ from human intelligence in crucial ways. We review progress in cognitive science suggesting that truly human-like learning and thinking machines will have to reach beyond current engineering trends in both what they learn, and how they learn it. Specifically, we argue that these machines should (a) build causal models of the world that support explanation and understanding, rather than merely solving pattern recognition problems; (b) ground learning in intuitive theories of physics and psychology, to support and enrich the knowledge that is learned; and (c) harness compositionality and learning-to-learn to rapidly acquire and generalize knowledge to new tasks and situations. We suggest concrete challenges and promising routes towards these goals that can combine the strengths of recent neural network advances with more structured cognitive models.
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Artificial life is a research field studying what processes and properties define life, based on a multidisciplinary approach spanning the physical, natural and computational sciences. Artificial life aims to foster a comprehensive study of life beyond "life as we know it" and towards "life as it could be", with theoretical, synthetic and empirical models of the fundamental properties of living systems. While still a relatively young field, artificial life has flourished as an environment for researchers with different backgrounds, welcoming ideas and contributions from a wide range of subjects. Hybrid Life is an attempt to bring attention to some of the most recent developments within the artificial life community, rooted in more traditional artificial life studies but looking at new challenges emerging from interactions with other fields. In particular, Hybrid Life focuses on three complementary themes: 1) theories of systems and agents, 2) hybrid augmentation, with augmented architectures combining living and artificial systems, and 3) hybrid interactions among artificial and biological systems. After discussing some of the major sources of inspiration for these themes, we will focus on an overview of the works that appeared in Hybrid Life special sessions, hosted by the annual Artificial Life Conference between 2018 and 2022.
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机器人社区在为软机器人设备建模提供的理论工具的复杂程度中看到了指数增长。已经提出了不同的解决方案以克服与软机器人建模相关的困难,通常利用其他科学学科,例如连续式机械和计算机图形。这些理论基础通常被认为是理所当然的,这导致复杂的文献,因此,从未得到完整审查的主题。Withing这种情况下,提交的文件的目标是双重的。突出显示涉及建模技术的不同系列的常见理论根源,采用统一语言,以简化其主要连接和差异的分析。因此,对上市接近自然如下,并最终提供在该领域的主要作品的完整,解开,审查。
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在AI研究中,到目前为止,尽管这一方面在智能系统的功能中突出特征,但对功能和负担的表征和代表的表征和代表的关注一直是零星和稀疏的。迄今为止,零星和稀疏的稀疏努力是对功能和负担的表征和理解,也没有一般框架可以统一与功能概念的表示和应用有关的所有不同使用域和情况。本文开发了这样的一般框架,一种方法强调了一个事实,即所涉及的表示必须是明确的认知和概念性的,它们还必须包含有关涉及的事件和过程的因果特征,并采用了概念上的结构,这些概念结构是扎根的为了达到最大的通用性,他们所指的指南。描述了基本的一般框架,以及一组有关功能表示的基本指南原则。为了正确,充分地表征和表示功能,需要一种描述性表示语言。该语言是定义和开发的,并描述了其使用的许多示例。一般框架是基于一般语言含义表示代表框架的概念依赖性的扩展而开发的。为了支持功能的一般表征和表示,基本的概念依赖框架通过称为结构锚和概念依赖性阐述的代表性设备以及一组地面概念的定义来增强。这些新颖的代表性构建体得到了定义,开发和描述。处理功能的一般框架将代表实现人工智能的重大步骤。
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在本次调查中,我们介绍了执行需要不同于环境的操作任务的机器人的当前状态,使得机器人必须隐含地或明确地控制与环境的接触力来完成任务。机器人可以执行越来越多的人体操作任务,并且在1)主题上具有越来越多的出版物,其执行始终需要联系的任务,并且通过利用完美的任务来减轻环境来缓解不确定性信息,可以在没有联系的情况下进行。最近的趋势已经看到机器人在留下的人类留给人类,例如按摩,以及诸如PEG孔的经典任务中,对其他类似任务的概率更有效,更好的误差容忍以及更快的规划或学习任务。因此,在本调查中,我们涵盖了执行此类任务的机器人的当前阶段,从调查开始所有不同的联系方式机器人可以执行,观察这些任务是如何控制和表示的,并且最终呈现所需技能的学习和规划完成这些任务。
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预测性编码提供了对皮质功能的潜在统一说明 - 假设大脑的核心功能是最小化有关世界生成模型的预测错误。该理论与贝叶斯大脑框架密切相关,在过去的二十年中,在理论和认知神经科学领域都产生了重大影响。基于经验测试的预测编码的改进和扩展的理论和数学模型,以及评估其在大脑中实施的潜在生物学合理性以及该理论所做的具体神经生理学和心理学预测。尽管存在这种持久的知名度,但仍未对预测编码理论,尤其是该领域的最新发展进行全面回顾。在这里,我们提供了核心数学结构和预测编码的逻辑的全面综述,从而补充了文献中最新的教程。我们还回顾了该框架中的各种经典和最新工作,从可以实施预测性编码的神经生物学现实的微电路到预测性编码和广泛使用的错误算法的重新传播之间的紧密关系,以及对近距离的调查。预测性编码和现代机器学习技术之间的关系。
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The applicability of computational models to the biological world is an active topic of debate. We argue that a useful path forward results from abandoning hard boundaries between categories and adopting an observer-dependent, pragmatic view. Such a view dissolves the contingent dichotomies driven by human cognitive biases (e.g., tendency to oversimplify) and prior technological limitations in favor of a more continuous, gradualist view necessitated by the study of evolution, developmental biology, and intelligent machines. Efforts to re-shape living systems for biomedical or bioengineering purposes require prediction and control of their function at multiple scales. This is challenging for many reasons, one of which is that living systems perform multiple functions in the same place at the same time. We refer to this as "polycomputing" - the ability of the same substrate to simultaneously compute different things. This ability is an important way in which living things are a kind of computer, but not the familiar, linear, deterministic kind; rather, living things are computers in the broad sense of computational materials as reported in the rapidly-growing physical computing literature. We argue that an observer-centered framework for the computations performed by evolved and designed systems will improve the understanding of meso-scale events, as it has already done at quantum and relativistic scales. Here, we review examples of biological and technological polycomputing, and develop the idea that overloading of different functions on the same hardware is an important design principle that helps understand and build both evolved and designed systems. Learning to hack existing polycomputing substrates, as well as evolve and design new ones, will have massive impacts on regenerative medicine, robotics, and computer engineering.
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