Elements of episodic memory: insights from artificial agents

A Boyle, A Blomkvist - Philosophical Transactions B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many recent artificial intelligence (AI) systems take inspiration from biological episodic
memory. Here, we ask how these 'episodic-inspired'AI systems might inform our …

[HTML][HTML] Forms of explanation and understanding for neuroscience and artificial intelligence

JAF Thompson - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Much of the controversy evoked by the use of deep neural networks as models of biological
neural systems amount to debates over what constitutes scientific progress in neuroscience …

Explanatory models in neuroscience, Part 1: Taking mechanistic abstraction seriously

R Cao, D Yamins - Cognitive Systems Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the recent success of neural network models in mimicking animal performance on
various tasks, critics worry that these models fail to illuminate brain function. We take it that a …

Instruments, agents, and artificial intelligence: novel epistemic categories of reliability

E Duede - Synthese, 2022 - Springer
Deep learning (DL) has become increasingly central to science, primarily due to its capacity
to quickly, efficiently, and accurately predict and classify phenomena of scientific interest …

[图书][B] From deep learning to rational machines: What the history of philosophy can teach us about the future of artificial intelligence

CJ Buckner - 2024 - books.google.com
" This book provides a framework for thinking about foundational philosophical questions
surrounding machine learning as an approach to artificial intelligence. Specifically, it links …

Black boxes or unflattering mirrors? Comparative bias in the science of machine behaviour

C Buckner - The British Journal for the Philosophy of …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
The last 5 years have seen a series of remarkable achievements in deep-neural-network-
based artificial intelligence research, and some modellers have argued that their …

Computational psychiatry and the evolving concept of a mental disorder

K Genin, T Grote, T Wolfers - Synthese, 2024 - Springer
As a discipline, psychiatry is in the process of finding the right set of concepts to organize
research and guide treatment. Dissatisfaction with the status quo as expressed in standard …

Prediction versus understanding in computationally enhanced neuroscience

M Chirimuuta - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
The use of machine learning instead of traditional models in neuroscience raises significant
questions about the epistemic benefits of the newer methods. I draw on the literature on …

Mapping representational mechanisms with deep neural networks

PH Kieval - Synthese, 2022 - Springer
The predominance of machine learning based techniques in cognitive neuroscience raises
a host of philosophical and methodological concerns. Given the messiness of neural activity …

The Representational Status of Deep Learning Models

E Duede - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12032, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper aims to clarify the representational status of Deep Learning Models (DLMs).
While commonly referred to as' representations', what this entails is ambiguous due to a …