An oracle that correctly predicts the outcome of every particle physics experiment, the
products of every possible chemical reaction or the function of every protein would …

More than a half-century ago, the 'cognitive revolution', with the influential tenet 'cognition is
computation', launched the investigation of the mind through a multidisciplinary endeavour …

We present ViLBERT (short for Vision-and-Language BERT), a model for learning task-
agnostic joint representations of image content and natural language. We extend the …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …

Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn
and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

We study response selection for multi-turn conversation in retrieval-based chatbots. Existing
work either concatenates utterances in context or matches a response with a highly abstract …

While evolutionary computation and evolutionary robotics take inspiration from nature, they
have long focused mainly on problems of performance optimization. Yet evolution in nature …

The chapter collected here represent some of the work carried out in the period 2002-2007
by the group working on the project “Null Subjects and the Structure of Parametric Theory” …