Interview with Daniel C. Dennett

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-414 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Cognitive Ethology ◽  
Daniel Dennett ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
Douglas Hofstadter

Daniel Dennett was educated at Harvard and Oxford, receiving his D.Phil. in 1965. After six years at University of California Irvine, he moved to Tufts, where he is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies. It is the author of articles on many issues in artificial intelligence, psychology, and cognitive ethology, as well as in philosophy. His books are Content and Consciousness (1969), Brainstorms (1978), The Mind's I (with Douglas Hofstadter, 1981). Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), and Consciousness Explained (1991). His new book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, will be published by Simon & Schuster in spring, 1995.

scholarly journals University Students’ Perceptions About Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1-May) ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
Pınar Ural Keleş ◽  
Suleyman Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
University Students ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Screening Method ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Faculty Of Education

The aim of this study was to determine the perceptions of university students about the concept of artificial intelligence. The sample of the research carried out with the screening method consists of 130 fourth grade students studying in the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of a university in Eastern Anatolia region in 2018-2019 academic year. 42 students from Faculty of Education, 47 from Faculty of Arts and Sciences and 41 from Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences participated in the study. The sample of the study was determined by snowball sampling method. Independent Word Association Test was used as data collection tool. Content analysis was used for data analysis. As a result of the study, it was determined that artificial intelligence perceptions of the students of the Faculty of Education were richer than the students of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Another important result determined in the study is that the negative perceptions of all sample groups about artificial intelligence concept are more significant than positive perceptions. Giving lectures to university students about current artificial intelligence applications and usage in their fields are among the suggestions of the study.

scholarly journals A Cognitive Assistant that Uses Small Talk in Tutoring Conversation

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Luciano Frontino De Medeiros ◽  
Armando Kolbe Junior ◽  
Alvino Moser
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Small Talk ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Applied Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Opening And Closing

This paper presents a cognitive conversational agent for use in teaching and learning processes named THOTH (Training by Highly Ontology-oriented Tutoring Host) that is capable of formulating and enunciating a well-defined set of small talk segments in a Q&A (Question and Answer) interaction. The small talk structures are placed within the tutoring conversation by an agent designed as a cognitive assistant, in order to make communication smoother and less formal, presenting a more “concerned” behavior. Twelve small talk segments are suggested, included in conversation stages such as opening and closing the conversation, maintaining the rhythm and managing learning. We also explore some branches of the theoretical assumptions and concepts grounding THOTH, such as Dennett’s intentional stance, Bloom’s taxonomy and microlearning theory. In order to measure the perception and effects of using THOTH, we performed a quantitative and qualitative study with a group of students from a course in Applied Artificial Intelligence over one semester. The outcomes are classified into two main categories of analysis – interactivity and intentionality – informing the discussion on the potential uses of a small talk agent as a valuable resource in tutoring interaction, and also raising some points for improvement. In addition to this study, we also drew a small talk profile for this group of students revealing what structures and topics they use the most, as well as a partial performance analysis that allows identifying some effects on learning.

The AIIDE 2015 Workshop Program

AI Magazine ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-94
Author(s):  
Camille Barot ◽  
Michael Buro ◽  
Michael Cook ◽  
Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari ◽  
Boyang “Albert” Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Real Time ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Digital Entertainment ◽  
Joint Workshop ◽  
Player Modeling ◽  
The University

The workshop program at the Eleventh Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment was held November 14–15, 2015 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. The program included 4 workshops (one of which was a joint workshop): Artificial Intelligence in Adversarial Real-Time Games, Experimental AI in Games, Intelligent Narrative Technologies and Social Believability in Games, and Player Modeling. This article contains the reports of three of the four workshops.

scholarly journals More Things in Heaven and Earth: Spirit Possession, Mental Disorder, and Intentionality

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Daniel Dennett ◽  
Peculiar Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Abstract Spirit possession is a common phenomenon around the world in which a non-corporeal agent is involved with a human host. This manifests in a range of maladies or in displacement of the host's agency and identity. Prompted by engagement with the phenomenon in Egypt, this paper draws connections between spirit possession and the concepts of personhood and intentionality. It employs these concepts to articulate spirit possession, while also developing the intentional stance as formulated by Daniel Dennett. It argues for an understanding of spirit possession as the spirit stance: an intentional strategy that aims at predicting and explaining behaviour by ascribing to an agent (the spirit) beliefs and desires but is only deployed once the mental states and activity of the subject (the person) fail specific normative distinctions. Applied to behaviours that are generally taken to signal mental disorder, the spirit stance preserves a peculiar form of intentionality where behaviour would otherwise be explained as a consequence of a malfunctioning physical mechanism. Centuries before the modern disciplines of psychoanalysis and phenomenological-psychopathology endeavoured to restore meaning to 'madness,' the social institution of spirit possession had been preserving the intentionality of socially deviant behaviour.

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