Joscha Bach

Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, Germany) is a cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, models of mental representation, emotion, motivation and sociality.[1]

Joscha Bach
Bach
Born1973
Weimar, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationCognitive scientist
Websitehttp://bach.ai/

Education and roles

Master of Arts in Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 2000. Doctor of Philosophy, Osnabrück University, Germany, 2006.[2][3] Bach's Ph.D. was in cognitive science.[4][5]

Roles

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 Research.[7]

Achievements

Achievements include research in novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models; development of microPsi[8] cognitive architecture for modeling emotion, motivation, mental representation.[9]

Other

Bach was directly or indirectly attributed $300,000 by Jeffrey Epstein charitable funds, according to fact-finding reports from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[10][11] According to Science Magazine,[12] Harvard University,[11] and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[10] Bach declined to comment on his ties to Epstein.

Publications

  • MicroPsi 2: The Next Generation of the MicroPsi Framework. In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2012), Oxford, UK: pp. 11-20, 2012, Springer LNAI, Vol. 7716
  • With Mario Verdicchio. What Kind of Machine is the Mind? In Turing-100, the Alan Turing Centenary Conference, Manchester, UK, 2012. Online Publication
  • Functional Modeling of Personality Properties Based on Motivational Traits. Proceedings of ICCM-7, International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Berlin, Germany. pp. 271-272, 2012.
  • Mapping the landscape of human-level artificial general intelligence (AI magazine). Sam Adams, Itmar Arel, Joscha Bach, Robert Coop, Rod Furlan, Ben Goertzel, J Storrs Hall, Alexei Samsonovich, Matthias Scheutz, Matthew Schlesinger, Stuart C Shapiro, John Sowa (2012)
  • Modeling Motivation and the Emergence of Affect in a Cognitive Agent. In Wang, P. (ed). Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence. Atlantis Press. Joscha Bach (2012)
  • A Motivational System for Cognitive AI. Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, Springer Berlin, Heidelberg. 232-242. Joscha Bach (2011)
  • Requirements for Cognitive Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of Philosophy & Theory of Artificial Intelligence, Thessaloniki, Greece. Joscha Bach (2011)
  • Modeling Emotion as an Interaction between Motivation and Modulated Cognition. Workshop on Standards in Emotion Modeling, Leiden, Netherlands. Joscha Bach (2011)
  • Artificial General Intelligence and Organizational Intelligence (On the Singularity of AI). Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, ECAP 10, Munich, Germany. Joscha Bach (2010)
  • Principles of Synthetic Intelligence. An architecture for motivated cognition. Oxford University Press, New York. Joscha Bach (2009) ISBN 978-0195370676
  • Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence. Proceedings of 1st Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, Memphis: 63-74. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, Joscha Bach (2008)
  • True Feelings: Functionalist and Descriptionalist Modeling of Emotion. Proceedings of Workshop on Artificial Emotion, KI 2007, Osnabrück, Germany, Joscha Bach (2007)
  • Motivated, Emotional Agents in the MicroPsi Framework. Proceedings of 8th European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece: 458-461. Taylor & Francis. Joscha Bach (2007)
  • Psi and MicroPsi. A Novel Approach to Modeling Emotion and Cognition in a Cognitive Architecture. Proceedings of the 7th international conference on cognitive modeling, Trieste. 20-25. J Bach, D Dörner, R Vuine (2006)
  • MicroPsi: Contributions to a Broad Architecture of Cognition. In Proc. of KI2006, Bremen, Germany. Annual conference on artificial intelligence. 7-18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Joscha Bach, Colin Bauer, Ronnie Vuine (2006)
  • Representations for a Complex World. Combining Distributed and Localist Representations for Learning and Planning, in: Wermter, S. & Palm, G. (eds.): Biomimetic Neural Learning for Intelligent Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Joscha Bach (2005)
  • The MicroPsi Agent Architecture. Proceedings of ICCM-5, International Conference on Cognitive Modeling Bamberg, Germany (pp. 15-20). Joscha Bach (2003)
  • Connecting MicroPsi Agents to Virtual and Physical Environments Bach, J. (2003): Applications of the AEP Toolkit. In Workshops and Tutorials, 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, Dortmund, Germany. (p. 128-132)
  • The AEP Toolkit for Agent Design and Simulation, Proceedings of MATES 2003, German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, LNAI 2831, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (p. 38-49). Joscha Bach, Ronnie Vuine (2003)
  • Designing Agents with MicroPsi Node Nets. In Proceedings of KI 2003, Annual German Conference on AI. LNAI 2821, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. (p. 164-178), Joscha Bach, Ronnie Vuine (2003)
  • Enhancing Perception and Planning of Software Agents with Emotion and Acquired Hierarchical Categories, Proceedings of MASHO 02 at KI 2002, p. 3ff. Joscha Bach (2002)

References
  1. AI Foundation about
  2. Edge Foundation record
  3. TEDxBeaconStreet Talks
  4. http://www.scifuture.org/exciting-progress-in-artificial-intelligence-joscha-bach/
  5. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zoqp8EDcaGiPkdFKM/online-ssc-meetup-with-guest-speaker-joscha-bach-july-19th
  6. Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
  7. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zoqp8EDcaGiPkdFKM/online-ssc-meetup-with-guest-speaker-joscha-bach-july-19th
  8. Cognitive Artificial Intelligence The MicroPsi Project
  9. "Joscha Bach | Edge.org". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  10. "REPORT CONCERNING JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S INTERACTIONS WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. January 10, 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  11. "REPORT CONCERNING JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN'S CONNECTIONS TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY" (PDF). 1 May 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  12. "What kind of researcher did sex offender Jeffrey Epstein like to fund? He told Science before he died". Science | AAAS. 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
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