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BIOLOGICAL AND SEMIOTIC TRENDS IN THE FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Anna Sarosiek1
DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 14 May 2016
Keywords: artificial intelligence, embodiment, biosemiotic, autonomous systems, interactive systems, Jacques Loeb, Jakob von Uexkül
Abstract The aim of this paper is to present biological and semiotical inspirations influencing the work on Artifcial Intelligence. The biological approach was one of the most effective attitudes in the study of Embodied Artifcial Intelligence. Especially the theories of Jacques Loeb and Jakob von Uexküll play a major roles in understanding this approach. During the development of building an autonomous system, researchers of AI have returned towards organismic or mechanistic theory. Finally, Biology and Semiotics offer a new perspective of intelligent machines as taking an active part in the process of semiosis. It is an exceptionally important to interact with the environment and meaningful objects. The paradigm of the embodied and embedded mind is the clue to understand the quasi-orgasmic frame of intelligent machines. Artificial systems are able to achieve autonomy through self-development, learning and the evolution of software. The great innovation here is to think of AI as having its own phenomenal world.
Uniwersytet Papieski im. Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, Centrum Kopernika Badań Interdyscyplinarnych
E-mail: anna.sarosiek@icloud.com