Tag Archives: Embodied Cognition

LM101-009: How to Enhance Intelligence with a Robotic Body (Embodied Cognition)

Robot with human head playing racquetball and human with robot body.

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Episode Summary: Embodied cognition emphasizes the design of complex artificially intelligent systems may be both vastly simplified and vastly enhanced if we view the robotic bodies of artificially intelligent systems as important contributors to intelligent behavior. Show Notes: Hello everyone! Welcome to the ninth podcast in the podcast series Learning Machines 101. In this series of podcasts my… Read More »

LM101-006: How to Interpret Turing Test Results

Searle's Chinese Room argument against the validity of the Turing Test.

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Episode Summary: In this episode, we briefly review the concept of the Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence (AI) which states that if a computer’s behavior is indistinguishable from that of the behavior of a thinking human being, then the computer should be called “artificially intelligent”. Some objections to this definition of artificial intelligence are introduced and discussed. At… Read More »