The Marvin Minsky Institute for Society of Mind Theory

Building on Genesis's self-reflection capability we will perform experiments where agentslearn how solve problems in new and creative ways, learning by example and instruction, anddistilling general procedures and recipes. Such systems will require reflective capabilities ofvarious kinds in order to recognize, abstract, and align what they learn. To better understandthe interface between language and other senses, we will experiment with biologicallyplausiblemodels of vision, including architectures that can integrate top-down and bottom-upinformation. With a similar integrative approach, we will pursue human-scale models oflanguage that can use knowledge and multi-modal senses to constrain meaning. We willintegrate a new level of hypothetical reasoning capabilities into our cognitive models, enablinga range of more complex behaviors including forms of imagination, moral reasoning,evaluating, and planning. We believe all of this will be an important step towardunderstanding the competences necessary for human intelligence.