Joscha Bach: I think it started when I was sitting in front of my Commodore 64, so roughly in 1983 and I typed stuff in and at some point in realized that it’s nothing I cannot put into this system. You know what prompted you, was it a class you took or a project you worked on? They did try to understand the minds by building test to the models, basic computer models that reflect the degree to which AI understands thinking and in not being able to do certain things, we did see the forthcoming of our series.ĭavid Kruse: And how did you get interested in starting the research and to work with the mind. But the AI has always also been a science that we are part of it. Part of AI is about building systems that are better at processing data that learn better, that control robots or technical systems. So I think that AI is probably our best bet at understanding minds and this is mostly the reason why the field has been started 60 years ago by people like Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. So I went into academia and started to study computer science and philosophy and then switched into a Cognitive Science Department and I think that the best bet that we have with order to understand how they do what they do is to treat them as information processing systems. Joscha Bach: Well, I’m most interested in how minds work.
So Joscha, thanks for coming on the show today.ĭavid Kruse: And before we start with what you are working on now and your current research, can you give us a little bit of your background? I don’t know if I understand quite all of it, so that’s why we have Joscha here to explain more, but I’m very curious to learn what he us up to.
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And Joscha researches and explores the mind and how it works and how to relate that to computing, including computational meta-psychology. And Joscha is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Today we are lucky enough to have Joscha Bach with us. Welcome to another episode of Flyover Labs. When did you first get interested in computers, AI?ĭavid Kruse: Hey everyone. How do you train an AI agent to have emotions? What two areas of AI are you interested in? What eventually do you want your Minecraft agent to be able to do?
Here are some other things we talk about: I was lucky enough to be able to interview him. Joscha is pushing the boundaries of what AI can do in the future. Joscha researches and explores the mind and how it works, and how to relate that to computing, including computational metapsychology It’s fascinating. Starting in 2000, he has been an AI researcher and lecturer, and co-founder at different institutions and companies. He also received his PhD in Cognitive Science from Universitat Osnabruck. He has computer science degrees from the University of Waikato and Humboldt University of Berlin. Joscha is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. This interview on computational metapsychology is with Joscha Bach, PhD.