Transcript Imagination - CSE, IIT Bombay

Imagination & Artificial
Intelligence
Gagan Deep Kaur
Roll No. 07408802
Prof. Ratikanta Panda
Supervisor
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
INTELLIGENCE
IMAGINATION
Reason – Ability to think abstractly, make comparisons,
analyze, categorize
- rule governed
- laws, axioms, theorems
- raw, inflexible
Imagination – ability to visualize - think about possibilities
- no rules
- reaches where Reason can not
- flexible – fickleness?
Imagination organizes rationality, gives meaning to our experience
Evaluations done by reason but made possible by imagination
Two way interaction – Reason makes imagination sane
Pathologies of Imagination
Perception – a process of being aware about the world,
interplay of five senses, “understanding” of the world
Imagination
- organizes and completes our perceptual experience by providing
missing links
- an important factor in apprehending a phenomenon
Case of Optical Illusions
Two way interaction – perception stimulates imagination
Kossylyn’s DuckRabbit figure
Emotions – feelings, mental state of an individual, expressed through
various kinds of behaviors
Imagination
- makes emotions possible in many cases
- heightens the significance of a given situation
Two way interaction – emotions influencing imagination
- fine-tuning the quality of particular imagining.
Creativity – Process of creating something novel and useful
idea, artifact, object,
Creativity - domain specific, works in Constraints only
Imagination - gives birth to creativity by devising constraints and means
to transcend those
Two way interaction – constraints stimulate imagination
INTELLIGENCE
IMAGINATION
Various Emotions displayed by Kismet, MIT Lab, 2000
surprise
happiness
I M A G I N A T I O N ????
Selected Internet Sources
For Numpeung’s drawings - http://numpueng.wordpress.com/
For Aaron’s drawings - http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/42/text/cohen.html
For Kismet moods - http://www.thedreaming.org/~quartz/201/emote.html
and http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115420/Cyberclub%20800x600/Gif/pics2/Kismet2.jpg
For detail on Kismet’s functions - http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoidrobotics-group/kismet/kismet.html
Rest is part of my research!
Thanks!