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Embodiment, the last frontier of Artificial Intelligence |
Date: 5/11/08
Venue: MG229
Speaker: Dr. Carlos Herrera
Affiliation: University of Ulster, Magee
Embodiment, the last frontier of Artificial Intelligence
by Dr. Carlos Herrera
Research Associate in Cognitive Robotics at ISRC,
University of Ulster, Magee
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gone through a transformation in the last decades, fueled by concepts such as embodiment and situatedness. These notions, inherited from different philosophical traditions, have received different AI interpretations. These range from the consideration of the robotic platform as the locus of intelligence (physical realization), to the need of biologically-inspired design. In this talk I will introduce the notion of modulation as a form of embodied distributed control, and a key for the modelling of emotion in artificial agents.
Biography
Carlos Herrera is research associate in Cognitive Robotics at the Intelligent Systems Research Centre, University of Ulster. He holds a Licenciado degree in Mathematics (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), a Postgraduate Diploma in Philosophy (University of Glasgow) and a PhD (Glasgow Caledonian University) with the title "The synthesis of emotion in Artificial Agents". Before moving to Ulster, he worked at the University of Skövde as a postdoc in the ICEA project 2006-2007. His main interests involve areas such as embodied, situated and dynamic approaches to cognition and adaptation, emotion, and the philosophy of robotics.
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