Made-up minds
by Gary L. Drescher · first published 1991
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…it uses simple mathematical models as its foundation. The scruffy approach is more like biology, where much of the work involves studying and categorizing diverse phenomena.[a] https://www.amazon.com/Made-Up-Minds-Constructivist-Artifici... Made-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Series) Paperback – January 1, 2003 Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions…
on “Ask HN: What is the relevance today of Minsky's “Society of Mind” concept?” ↗…kept a trade secret than be revealed to the public through either a patent document or a detailed enough paper. (Just giving them the benefit of doubt.) If you look at Gary Drescher's work published in "Made up minds" [1], it seems possible that an AI that can influence the world can more efficiently arrive at intelligence than one that simply observes it - i.e. one that can learn by performing experiments rather…
on “AI Startup Says It Has Defeated Captchas” ↗…Schemas in my MOOLLM github repo to analyze and prevent AI Slop, AI Gloss, and more. I'm actively applying Gary Drescher's schema mechanism to the problem, as he described is his PhD thesis and book "Made-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence". So what have you tried to do about the problem, other than just whining in online discussions? You asked for a link to my repo, so now you owe…
on “How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution” ↗…curiosity. Leela AI was founded by Henry Minsky and Cyrus Shaoul, and is inspired by ideas about child development by Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Gary Drescher (described in his book “Made-Up Minds”). https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262517089/made-up-minds/ https://leela.ai/leela-core >Leela Platform is powered by Leela Core, an innovative AI engine based on research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence…
on “Doug Lenat has died” ↗…combination of manipulating abstractions and extracting new, higher level entities from lower levels of abstraction. For the latter, the only AI work to date that I am aware of on the latter is Drescher's 'Made-up Minds'. Multi-layered neural nets end up with interior points that map to some sort of features, but there is a big jump from that to a system being able to develop an abstraction and then operate in terms…
on “Paul English Shares His Approach to Effective Giving” ↗…activation patterns that recall mental states. cursor-mirror lets you see these patterns: which tools activated, what context was assembled, how the agent reasoned. Schema Mechanism (Drescher, 1991) — Made-Up Minds describes how agents learn causal models through Context → Action → Result schemas. cursor-mirror provides the data for schema refinement: what context was assembled, what action was taken, what result…
on “Ask HN: What is best way to provide continuous context to models?” ↗…skill: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/tree/main/skills/adventu... Adventure Compiler: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/adventu... Gary Drescher's Schema Mechanism skill from "Made Up Minds" (based on his PhD thesis and book about how children learn, with his advisor Marvin Minsky at the MIT AI Lab): https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/schema-... MOOLLM Play Learn Lift…