A Look at Pragmatic AI

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A Look at Pragmatic AI

• Toni Westbrook
• Concord School District
• Synthetic Dreams

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Branches of AI

• Symbolic or Classical AI
• Concerned with rules and facts
• Mimics human expertise
• Strength Expert systems, parsing, data-mining
• Weakness Sensory/Motor systems, learning
• Connectionist
• Concerned with emulating brain
• Hardware improvements makes more viable

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Parsing and Matching

• 1. Rumford Street Building 16 Apt 2
• 16 Rumford St Apt 2
• Name matching
• Nickname database
• Percentage matching
• Address matching
• Removing unnecessary data
• Token replacement
• Poor individual probability, better combined

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The Natural Computer
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Neurophysiology

• Receives from dendrites, fires along axon
• Excitatory and inhibitory neurons
• Neurotransmitters, modulators
• NMDA receptors, synapses
• The core of learning

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TFNN Matrices
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Associative Learning

• The Twizzler incident
• Tone-shock pairings
• Hebbian Plasticity
• Neurons that fire together, wire together

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TFNN Experiment
Motor Control
Proto Amygdala
Left Antenna
Right Antenna
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Major Issues to Overcome

• Much not understood
• Genetic neural pre-configuration
• Processing power
• Deterministic vs. Non-Deterministic
• Social, Ethical, Moral
• Rights, Treatment
• Copying, neural compilers/decompilers

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Opportunities

• Recognition systems
• Biometric
• Forecasting
• Smart systems, safety systems
• Biotech industry
• Brain damage and aberration, nerve damage
• Increased communication

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Thank You!

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