Emergent Inference and the Future of NASA

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Emergent Inference and the Future of NASA Sergio
Pissanetzky Sergio_at_SciControls.com
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Emergent Inference
Any system
VISION ROBOT SOFTWARE
your mom grab an object computer program
eyes cameras, sensors translation
100,000,000 dots of light memory memory
EI in the brain EI in the computer EI in the computer
hi, mom next move classes and objects
your mom with a hat new environment development
learning
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Analyst-independent technolgies (AITs)
? NASA needs AITs for manned and unmanned
space exploration. ? Autonomous robots can fly
on their own or help the astronauts. ? All
our current technolgies are analyst-dependent. ?
Extricating the analyst from software requires
understanding the analyst. ? Understanding the
analist means understanding the brain.
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The brain
AND
The brain is a computer ? Cognition ? In
host-guest systems guest ? We learn ? We
remember ? We know ? We decide ? Do we think? ?
Do we reason?
The brain is an organ ? Unconscious ? In
host-guest systems host ? Where is the
unconscious? ? What does it do? ? Hermann von
Helmholtz ? Sigmund Freud ? James Clerk Maxwell ?
Carl Jung ? Douglas Hofstadter ? Pink Floyd ?
David Eagleman ? Juan Roederer ? Jean Piaget ?
Sergio
I believe that cognition is a giant memory of
behaviors, stored as a hierarchy of structures.
Then, an unconscious mechanism that von Helmholtz
called UI and I call EI generates new structures,
and again stores them as behaviors in our
cognition for us to use.
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The Great Unsolved Automation Problems of
Software Engineering (GUAPs)
The automation of ? Object generation
(80s) ? Refactoring (90s) ? Integration
(2000s) ? Self-programming (2010s) ?
Parallel Programming ? Image Recognition ?
Semantic Web ? Ontologies ? Robots ? ...
and counting. All these problems have exact
mathematical solutions that can be found by
emergent inference.
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BRAIN
chess
drive
Jeopardy
brain
play chess
drive a car
play Jeopardy
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EMERGENT INFERENCE
SOFTWARE
pixels
Jeopardy sensors
sequential program
disorganized software
chess sensors
car sensors
set of programs
problem of Physics
chess program
quiz program
car driving program
emergent inference
chess controls
car controls
integrated program
solution
refactored objects
asignement
Jeopardy controls
recognized image
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Traditional software development cycle
BRAIN (human analyst)
subject-matter engineer
knowledge

file

data
PROGRAM
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History of mankind
HUMAN LABOR TASKS
Source of mechanical power heavy lifting dig trenches propel a boat
Source of Emergent Inference program computers control machines creative tasks
Decision making - automating systems
SINCE THE ADVENT OF HUMANS
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
You are here
INTELLIGENCE REVOLUTION
The world cost for non-automation is 60 trillion
per year.
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Plan and Conclusions
? All current technolgies are analyst-dependent.
? Anayst-independent thecnologies are needed
for space exploration, both manned or
unmanned. ? EI provides the only way to
extricate the analyst.
? EI should be developed in USA. ? NASA may
develop EI. ? Step 1 independent
verification. ? Step 2 development. ? Step 3
application in robotics.
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2011 publications
? Structural Emergence in Partially Ordered Sets
is the Key to Intelligence. S. Pissanetzky.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, a
subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
LNAI 6830, pp. 92-101. Springer-Verlag. ?
Emergence and self-organization in partially
ordered sets. S. Pissanetzky. To appear in
Complexity. ? Emergent inference, or how can a
program become a self-programming AGI system?
Sergio Pissanetzky. Workshop on Self-programming
in AGI systems. AGI-11 conference, Google campus,
Mountain View, CA. August 3-6, 2011. Sergio_at_SciC
ontrols.com www.SciControls.com