Re: [W3C Group Management] XAI Asset Management has nominated Aric Whitewood to the Cognitive AI Community Group

Hi Aric,

Thanks for introducing yourself.   From my perspective, I’d welcome help with gathering use cases for effective arguments that balance the case for and against some supposition.  This would help with work on declarative approaches to describing strategies and tactics for developing arguments.  

Another opportunity is around developing synthetic datasets for evaluation of different neural architectures for human-like cognition.  ChatGPT is a large language model trained for language prediction.  It would be both interesting and challenging to look at complementary approaches based upon continual learning.

Can you tell us about your research on knowledge representation and common sense reasoning?

Best regards,
    Dave

> On 1 Feb 2024, at 10:54, Aric Whitewood <aric.whitewood@xai-am.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi - great to be a part of the group. 
> 
> Brief background - I run an Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused hedge fund and am also co-founder of an AI centric Edutech firm. I’ve worked in the AI field for around 18 years, in the defence, finance, and education sectors.
> 
> In the hedge fund, we do quite a lot of research on topics like: fuzzy rules based systems, deep reinforcement learning, and unsupervised learning with multivariate time series. Some of that is in conjunction with UCL in London, but most is proprietary. 
> 
> In the Edutech firm, the emphasis is on integrating knowledge graphs with LLMs to better surface learning objectives and relevant content for students. 
> 
> I’ve also been doing some research on knowledge representation and common sense reasoning, which led me to this group. 
> 
> Happy to contribute in whatever way I can, thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Aric
> 
> 
> From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
> Sent: 31 January 2024 15:54
> To: Aric Whitewood <aric.whitewood@xai-am.com>
> Cc: public-cogai <public-cogai@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: [W3C Group Management] XAI Asset Management has nominated Aric Whitewood to the Cognitive AI Community Group
>  
> Hi Aric,
> 
> Welcome to the W3C Cognitive AI CG.  I encourage you to email the group with a brief account of your interest and intentions.  So far we have mostly worked on chunks and rules, inspired by John Anderson’s ACT-R, and PKN (plausible knowledge notation) inspired by Alan Collins, with demos and draft specifications for both.
> 
> I see opportunities for further work on extending PKN to model tactics and strategies for defeasible reasoning. We’ve also started new work on neural network architectures to experiment with ideas for enabling continual learning, episodic memory and reflective cognition, see:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2023/10/10-Raggett-AI.pdf 
> 
> If you are a programmer, your help with the latter would be much appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>

Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>