Teoria della mente

  • Pensieri
  • Sentimenti
  • Emozioni
  • Autocoscienza
  • Empatia

Cos'è la mente?

Non esiste una definizione comprovata di Mente .

La mente può essere definita come un'istanza dell'intelligenza.

La mente può essere definita come un insieme di conoscenze.

Pensare, sentire e significare è mente o know-how?

La mente è solo un grande computer?


Scienza cognitiva

La scienza cognitiva è lo studio dei processi mentali .

Uno scienziato cognitivo studia l'intelligenza e il comportamento.

La scienza cognitiva si concentra su come le cellule cerebrali elaborano e trasformano le informazioni.

La scienza cognitiva cerca anche di imparare a sviluppare algoritmi informatici intelligenti.

Scienze cognitive

Il modello mentale

Un modello mentale è un'immagine interna della realtà esterna.

Gli scienziati si aspettano che un modello svolga un ruolo importante nel ragionamento e nel processo decisionale (cognizione).

Kenneth Craik suggested in 1943 that the mind constructs "small-scale models" of reality when trying to anticipate events.

The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model.
Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.

Jay Wright Forrester, 1971.


Can AI Be Human?

Scientists are trying to discover what separates human intelligence from artificial intelligence.

What is the status? What is the future?

  • Year 2000: Reactive Machines
  • Year 2015: Machine Learning
  • Year 2030: Theory of Mind
  • Year 2050: Self-Awareness

Reactive Machines

Scacchi

Early AI systems were reactive. Reactive systems cannot use past experience.

In 1997 a reactive machine ("IBM Deep Blue") beat the world champion in chess.

"Deep Blue" could not think. But it was stored with information about the chess board, and the rules for moving chess pieces.

"Deep Blue" won because it was programmed to calculate every move to win.


Machine Learning

Today, AI systems can use some information from the past.

One example is self-driven cars. They can combine pre-programmed information with information they collect while they learn how to drive.


Theory of Mind

Theory of Mind is a term from psychology about an individual's capacity for empathy and understanding of others.

This is an awareness of others being like yourself, with individual needs and intentions.

One of the abilities language users have, is to communicate about things that are not concrete, like needs, ideas, or concepts.

Simon Baron-Cohen, British psychologist and professor at the University of Cambridge, argues (1999) that "Theory of Mind" must have preceded languages, based on knowledge about early human activities:

  • Teaching
  • Building Shared Goals
  • Building Shared Plans
  • Intentional Communication
  • Intentional Sharing of Topic
  • Intentional Sharing of Focus
  • Intentional Persuasion
  • Intentional Pretending
  • Intentional Deception

Self-Awareness

In psychology, "Theory of Mind" means that people have thoughts, feelings and emotions that affect their behavior.

Future AI systems must learn to understand that everyone (both people and AI objects) have thoughts and feelings.

Future AI systems must know how to adjust their behavior to be able to walk among us.

The last step, before AI can be human, is machine consciousness.

We can not construct this software before we know much more about the human brain, memory, and intelligence.