Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach | |
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Born | Weimar, Germany | December 21, 1973
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin (MA) Osnabrück University (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence Computer Science |
Institutions | Intel AI Foundation Harvard MIT Media Lab |
Thesis | Principles of Synthetic Intelligence; Building Blocks for an Architecture of Motivated Cognition (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Dietrich Dörner Kai-Uwe Kühnberger |
Website | bach |
Joscha Bach (born 1973) is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Bach was born and grew up in East Germany. His parents are architect and artist Jochen Bach, and Gisa Bach. He is part of the Bach family.[2]
He received an MA (computer science) from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2000 and a PhD (cognitive science) from Osnabrück University in 2006.[3][4][5]
Roles
[edit]Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. He worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.[6]
He then joined AI Foundation, working as VP of Research.[7] Between March 2021 and January 2023, he was a Principal AI Engineer at Intel Labs Cognitive Computing group.[8] He currently serves on AI Foundation's Advisory Council.[9]
Achievements
[edit]Bach built MicroPsi, a cognitive architecture extending representations of the Psi-theory with taxonomies, inheritance and linguistic labeling; MicroPsi's spreading activation networks allow for neural learning, planning and associative retrieval.[10][11][12]
Bach is the author of around 25 academic publications,[13] and has written a book on cognitive science called Principles of Synthetic Intelligence.[14][15]
Other
[edit]Between 2013 and 2017, Bach was attributed research funding by Jeffrey Epstein charitable funds, according to fact-finding reports from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[16][17][18]
References
[edit]- ^ "About". AI Foundation. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
- ^ Lex Fridman (13 June 2020), "Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101", YouTube, retrieved 12 November 2022
- ^ "Joscha Bach | Edge.org". www.edge.org. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ TEDxBeaconStreet Talks
- ^ "Exciting progress in Artificial Intelligence – Joscha Bach – Science, Technology & the Future". 11 August 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ "Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics". Retrieved 18 April 2023.
- ^ "Online SSC Meetup with Guest Speaker Joscha Bach". LessWrong. 7 July 2020. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020.
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/joschabach/ [self-published source]
- ^ "AI Foundation - Team". Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ The MicroPsi Agent Architecture. In Proceedings of ICCM-5, International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Bamberg, Germany: 15-20
- ^ Bach, J., Vuine, R. (2003): Designing Agents with MicroPsi Node Nets. In Proceedings of KI 2003, Annual German Conference on AI. LNAI 2821, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 164–178
- ^ Cognitive Artificial Intelligence The MicroPsi Project [1]
- ^ "Publications - Joscha Bach". Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ Bach, Joscha (6 April 2009). Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0195370676.
- ^ Bach, Joscha. "Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition" (PDF).
- ^ "Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein's Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ "Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein's Connections to Harvard University" (PDF). 1 May 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ "What kind of researcher did sex offender Jeffrey Epstein like to fund? He told Science before he died". Science | AAAS. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Joscha Bach on Twitter
- Joscha Bach publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Lex Fridman Podcast #101 - Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
- Lex Fridman Podcast #212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
- Lex Fridman Podcast #392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
- Musser, George. The Wizard of Consciousness Psychology Today. Published September 4, 2018.
- Recordings of Bach's lectures at CCC conferences