Assignment 3 Part B

In class exercise for Tues, 3/1
Due: Thur, 3/3 before class

Learning from a Blank Slate

• "Learning from a Blank Slate" is being investigated by the CORAL lab. Marc Pickett is one of the most active grad students interested in this topic. He'll be presenting his research this week in class. The paper he has provided for you to read is entitled, Essential Phenomena of General Intelligence .

• Questions from the paper:
  1. Notice the authors of this paper.    Do you recognize any of these names (from your 1st assignment)?

  2. One approach to Artificial Intelligence is to have an intelligent agent develop its representations of a domain autonomously. In this approach the agent is viewed as a _______________________________.

  3. What does Ockham's Razor say ?

  4. It's roughly equivalent to which Bayesian principle ?

  5. What does Marctar's Axe state ?

  6. What is meant by quickest ?

  7. Give the desirable cognitive phenomena listed in this paper and explain each briefly.

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  8. What was explicitly excluded from the list of cognitive phenomena ?
       Why?

  
  
  

• Compose two questions that you would like to ask Marc Pickett about his research.
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  2) _______________________________________________
  

• OPTIONAL
  There is also the original paper The Cruncher: Automatic Concept Formation Using Minimum Description Length . You aren't required to read this paper, since it's a difficult read. I'm providing it for those who would like to investigate the topic further. When this was assigned a few years ago, only the introduction and discussion sections were required.