[APPRENTICE] Working on and thinking about major problems in neurosymbolic AI / AGI. I:
am three months from finishing undergrad with a BS in Computers and Minds (I designed this degree to be a comprehensive AI degree). I have 1.5 years of academic research experience working with some core RL folks at my university. Considering grad schools for next fall but still unsure.
have an academic background in:
AI subfields ([hierarchical] reinforcement learning (options framework), more general sequential decision-making, grounding language to behavior). Interested in re-integrating the many subfields of AI. I have submitted a first-author paper to a conference on language-assisted policy search.
linguistics (pragmatics, compositional semantics)
psychology (personality [there’s plenty of insight from psychology that we have yet to integrate into AI])
philosophy (a few ethical dimensions of AI [I co-designed a course on the ethical dilemmas of the future of technology], philosophy of mind, epistemology)
am additionally interested in these things, which I don’t know as much about:
representation learning
planning
POMDPs
more structured MDP formalisms
need help thinking through research topics and ideas worth pursuing.
am looking to sharpen my focus and understanding of how AGI might work under the hood (I happen to think the most robust and intuitive route is via neurosymbolic AI).
[MENTOR] Anything I mentioned in my academic background in the apprentice section. I should have more time at the start of 2022.
[APPRENTICE] Working on and thinking about major problems in neurosymbolic AI / AGI. I:
am three months from finishing undergrad with a BS in Computers and Minds (I designed this degree to be a comprehensive AI degree). I have 1.5 years of academic research experience working with some core RL folks at my university. Considering grad schools for next fall but still unsure.
have an academic background in:
AI subfields ([hierarchical] reinforcement learning (options framework), more general sequential decision-making, grounding language to behavior). Interested in re-integrating the many subfields of AI. I have submitted a first-author paper to a conference on language-assisted policy search.
linguistics (pragmatics, compositional semantics)
psychology (personality [there’s plenty of insight from psychology that we have yet to integrate into AI])
philosophy (a few ethical dimensions of AI [I co-designed a course on the ethical dilemmas of the future of technology], philosophy of mind, epistemology)
am additionally interested in these things, which I don’t know as much about:
representation learning
planning
POMDPs
more structured MDP formalisms
need help thinking through research topics and ideas worth pursuing.
am looking to sharpen my focus and understanding of how AGI might work under the hood (I happen to think the most robust and intuitive route is via neurosymbolic AI).
[MENTOR] Anything I mentioned in my academic background in the apprentice section. I should have more time at the start of 2022.