Joscha Bach

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Joscha Bach
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Bach in 2013
Born (1973-12-21) December 21, 1973 (age 50)
Weimar, Germany
Nationality (legal) German
Alma mater Humboldt University of Berlin (MA)
Osnabrück University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Cognitive Science
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Institutions Intel
AI Foundation
Harvard
MIT Media Lab
Thesis Principles of Synthetic Intelligence; Building Blocks for an Architecture of Motivated Cognition  (2006)
Doctoral advisor Dietrich Dörner
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Website bach.ai

Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, East Germany) is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. [1]

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Early life and education

Bach was born and grew up in East Germany. His parents are architect and artist Jochen Bach, and Gisa Bach. He is part of the Bach family. [2]

He received an MA (computer science) from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2000 and a PhD (cognitive science) from Osnabrück University in 2006. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Roles

Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. He worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. [7]

He then joined AI Foundation, working as VP of Research. [6] Between March 2021 and January 2023, he was a Principal AI Engineer at Intel Labs Cognitive Computing group. [8] He currently serves on AI Foundation's Advisory Council. [9]

Achievements

Bach built MicroPsi, a cognitive architecture extending representations of the Psi-theory with taxonomies, inheritance and linguistic labeling; MicroPsi's spreading activation networks allow for neural learning, planning and associative retrieval. [10] [11] [12]

Bach is the author of around 25 academic publications, [13] and has written a book on cognitive science called Principles of Synthetic Intelligence. [14] [15]

He has also worked extensively on novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models. [16] [ failed verification ]

Other

Between 2013 and 2017, Bach was attributed research funding by Jeffrey Epstein charitable funds, according to fact-finding reports from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [17] [18] [19]

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References

  1. ↑ "About". AI Foundation. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  2. ↑ Lex Fridman (13 June 2020), "Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101", YouTube, retrieved 12 November 2022
  3. ↑ "Joscha Bach | Edge.org". www.edge.org. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  4. ↑ TEDxBeaconStreet Talks
  5. ↑ "Exciting progress in Artificial Intelligence – Joscha Bach – Science, Technology & the Future" . Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  6. 1 2 Guest speaker Joscha Bach Less Wrong [ dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics" . Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  8. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/joschabach/ [ self-published source ]
  9. ↑ "AI Foundation - Team" . Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  10. ↑ The MicroPsi Agent Architecture. In Proceedings of ICCM-5, International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Bamberg, Germany: 15-20
  11. ↑ Bach, J., Vuine, R. (2003): Designing Agents with MicroPsi Node Nets. In Proceedings of KI 2003, Annual German Conference on AI. LNAI 2821, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 164–178
  12. ↑ Cognitive Artificial Intelligence The MicroPsi Project
  13. ↑ "Publications - Joscha Bach" . Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  14. ↑ Bach, Joscha (6 April 2009). Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition. ISBN   978-0195370676.
  15. ↑ Bach, Joscha. "Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition" (PDF).
  16. ↑ "Joscha Bach | Edge.org". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  17. ↑ "Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein's Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  18. ↑ "Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein's Connections to Harvard University" (PDF). 1 May 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  19. ↑ "What kind of researcher did sex offender Jeffrey Epstein like to fund? He told Science before he died". Science | AAAS. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
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