Joscha Bach
Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Dr. Joscha Bach (MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics) is an AI researcher who works and writes about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. He is founder of the MicroPsi project, in which virtual agents are constructed and used in a computer model to discover and describe the interactions of emotion, motivation, and cognition of situated agents. Bach’s mission to build a model of the mind is the bedrock research in the creation of Strong AI, i.e. cognition on par with that of a human being. He is especially interested in the philosophy of AI and in the augmentation of the human mind.
Why the days of addictive tech are numbered
Will the next wave of tech prioritize happiness over profit, or will app designers continue to rely on addictive habits?
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Your brain invents its own code. Can we create an A.I. mind like that?
When it comes to creating minds, cognitive scientist Joscha Bach explains where we are with artificial intelligence, and where we need to be.
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How the Brain Could Succeed Where Gods, Monotheism, and Ideologies All Failed
Religious skepticism birthed the modern world, but its ideologies have largely failed to deliver. Could neuroscience cure the ails of human society?
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Get paid to be a good human being? That’s the future AI will deliver
A.I. will bring a series of social and financial changes, and it will force us to confront a problem we've been avoiding for much too long, says Joscha Bach.
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Do humans have free will, or are we programmed by society?
Humans are a programmable species, and we live inside the most ancient operating system of all — ideology.
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Will AI ever see the world as humans do?
AI won't really resemble humanoids. Instead, AI will create a world that countries and large companies can live in.
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Are We Living inside a Massive Computer Program?
Is our existence base reality—or are we pawns in a matrix? Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach explains how we might be able to tell.
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