Welcome to the Cognitive AI Community Group

Dear Katie,

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 intuitively express strategies and tactics for argumentation, drawing upon argumentation schemes (Walton), AIF (University of Dundee) and rhetorical guidelines (Aristotle).  This work depends on identifying some good use cases to guide the investigation.

We’ve also started new work on neural network architectures to experiment with ideas for enabling continual learning, episodic memory, deliberative reasoning, and reflective cognition, see: http://www.w3.org/2023/10/10-Raggett-AI.pdf.  For this we are looking for help with preparing the datasets for training and evaluation, as well as with programming in Python and PyTorch.

Best regards,

Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>