Leading scientists in the field of biologically inspired cognitive architecture have discussed a possibility of artificial intelligence constructing based on absolutely new principles.

Researchers from 15 countries – Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and others, have taken part in the first international scientific school on biologically inspired cognitive architecture (BICA), which took place in MEPhI.

As it was said in the organization committee of the event, organized by MEPhI with the support of the Russian Science Foundation and an international science society “BICA”, during 4 days students, internees, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists have met with leading, universally recognized specialists in BICA. Among them there are the Coordinator of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems David Vernon, Professor of Robotics in University of Palermo Antonio Chella, Professor of Penn State University Frank E. Ritter, Professor Vitaliy Dunin-Barkowskiy, the Head of Neuroinformatics Department in the Center for Optical Neural Technologies of the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology RAS.

Professor of George Mason University, Professor at the MEPhI Department of Cybernetics Alexey Samsonovich has claimed: “Main functional aspects of human thinking can be described at the computational level with the help of symbolic models like cognitive architectures. Creation of a human subject analogue in a machine and its acceptance by people as an equal character will lead to a technological breakthrough which will have a huge impact at all spheres of our life”.

“At the moment we are at the stage of discussion of joint projects with MEPhI. We have mutual interests in the field of social robotics and cognitive architecture”, - Antonio Chella has mentioned in his interview.

Based on the materials of RIA Novosti.