| Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief Contributor(s): Ballim, Afzal (Author), Wilks, Yorick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138963917 ISBN-13: 9781138963917 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics |
| Dewey: 153.4 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels -- syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic -- cannot be fully analyzed in the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of other believers. The heart of this text is the presentation of an artificial intelligence (AI) program intended to simulate certain aspects of a human believer. This book provides a prolog program, Viewgen, that maintains belief structures about the world and other believers, and is able to ascribe beliefs to others without direct evidence by using a form of default reasoning. The authors contend that a plausible model such as this can -- in the best cognitive science tradition -- shed light on the long-standing philosophical problem of what belief is. The issues presented here will be of considerable interest to an informed general reader as well as those with a background in any of the disciplines that make up what is now called cognitive science: philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and also AI itself. |