Robots – the new linguistic informants?

Cowley, Stephen J.

doi:10.1080/09540090802518695

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“…In the computational tradition, it was recognized that, without consideration of action, forms inevitably lack meaning for a system. Although easy to make what machines do meaningful to an outside observer (e.g., Cowley, 2008;Hsaio, Tellex, Vosoughi, Kubat, & Roy, 2008), it may be impossible to design a machine that makes analogous observations. Although debate continues, if the problem can be solved, it depends on engaging with the world.…”

Section: Against Mainstream Linguisticsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Taking a Language Stance

Cowley

2011

Ecological Psychology

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Section: Against Mainstream Linguisticsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Taking a Language Stance

Cowley

2011

Ecological Psychology

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“…This might be achieved via an interaction environment between a human and a robot where shared intentional-referencing and the associations between physical, visual, and speech modalities can be experienced by the robot. In fact, the bias of the learning context may require the human interaction partner to treat the robot as an intentional being, even though the robot may have no intentional capability [51]. The output of such studies, if combined to yield word or holophrase structures grounded in the robot's own actions and modalities, e.g., as in [205], would provide scaffolding for further protogrammatical usage-based learning.…”

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Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics

Cangelosi

Metta

Sagerer

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IEEE Trans. Auton. Mental Dev.

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Abstract-This position paper proposes that the study of embodied cognitive agents, such as humanoid robots, can advance our understanding of the cognitive development of complex sensorimotor, linguistic, and social learning skills. This in turn will benefit the design of cognitive robots capable of learning to handle and manipulate objects and tools autonomously, to cooperate and communicate with other robots and humans, and to adapt their abilities to changing internal, environmental, and social conditions. Four key areas of research challenges are discussed, specifically for the issues related to the understanding of: 1) how agents learn and represent compositional actions; 2) how agents learn and represent compositional lexica; 3) the dynamics of social interaction and learning; and 4) how compositional action and language representations are integrated to bootstrap the cognitive system. The review of specific issues and progress in these areas is then translated into a practical roadmap based on a series of milestones. These milestones provide a possible set of cognitive robotics goals and test scenarios, thus acting as a research roadmap for future work on cognitive developmental robotics.

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“…While plain in computer games, the insight extends to other systems. Visceral response has always been recognized: it appears in Weizenbaum's (1976) view that reactions to his ELIZA program show the dangers of computing just as it fits the argument that androids can be used as experimental devices in studying humans (MacDorman and Ishiguro 2006) and that robots shed light on human 'language' (Cowley 2008). Yet, many engineers resist the view that their products are parts of wider assemblages -they like to present devices as 'objects' that manage tasks in a few situations.…”

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Autonomous technologies in human ecologies: enlanguaged cognition, practices and technology

Gahrn-Andersen

Cowley

2021

AI & Soc

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Advanced technologies such as drones, intelligent algorithms and androids have grave implications for human existence. With the purpose of exploring their basis for doing so, the paper proposes a framework for investigating the complex relationship between such devices and human practices and language-mediated cognition. Specifically, it centers on the importance of the typically neglected intermediate layer of culture which not only drives both technophobia and -philia but also, more fundamentally, connects pre-reflective experience and socio-material practices with advanced technologies in the loop. Theoretically, the paper draws on contributions from performativist Science and Technology Studies and Radically Embodied Cognitive Science and pushes new grounds by stressing their compatibility. Yet, it also emphasizes the importance of the enlanguaged side of cognition which is a requirement for human-style socio-material practices and, hence, the emergence of cultures that fetishes certain technologies.

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Robots – the new linguistic informants?

Cited by 5 publications

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Taking a Language Stance

Taking a Language Stance

Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics

Autonomous technologies in human ecologies: enlanguaged cognition, practices and technology

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