Publication Date:
2015-07-18
Description:
After growing up together, and mostly growing apart in the second half of the 20th century, the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive science, and neuroscience are reconverging on a shared view of the computational foundations of intelligence that promotes valuable cross-disciplinary exchanges on questions, methods, and results. We chart advances over the past several decades that address challenges of perception and action under uncertainty through the lens of computation. Advances include the development of representations and inferential procedures for large-scale probabilistic inference and machinery for enabling reflection and decisions about tradeoffs in effort, precision, and timeliness of computations. These tools are deployed toward the goal of computational rationality: identifying decisions with highest expected utility, while taking into consideration the costs of computation in complex real-world problems in which most relevant calculations can only be approximated. We highlight key concepts with examples that show the potential for interchange between computer science, cognitive science, and neuroscience.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gershman, Samuel J -- Horvitz, Eric J -- Tenenbaum, Joshua B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Jul 17;349(6245):273-8. doi: 10.1126/science.aac6076. Epub 2015 Jul 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. gershman@fas.harvard.edu horvitz@microsoft.com jbt@mit.edu. ; Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. gershman@fas.harvard.edu horvitz@microsoft.com jbt@mit.edu. ; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. gershman@fas.harvard.edu horvitz@microsoft.com jbt@mit.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26185246" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence/*trends
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Brain/*physiology
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Humans
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Intelligence/*physiology
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Neurosciences/*trends
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Thinking/physiology
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Uncertainty
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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