This document contains the notes from a class on human perspective in artificial intelligence. It discusses various topics that will be covered in the class, including memory, forgetting, perception, vision, sound, touch, smell, taste, language, programming, applications of AI, and the futurism of AI. It provides instructions and announcements for assignments, including changes to homework due dates. Students ask questions and provide comments on potential future topics, including emotions in video games, AI prosthetics, conscious transfer to other bodies or computers, and discussions of textbooks.

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Human Perspective in Artificial Intelligence
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3. CIIC 5995-100 / ICOM 5995-100
Human Perspective in Artificial Intelligence
(HPAI)
Professor José Meléndez, PhD
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for…”
- Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

4. Look at this picture very carefully
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5. (Image by Prof. Meléndez)
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6. Announcements
• Homework #5 (postponed)
• Previously due on Monday, March 30, 2020,is being
postponed
• New due date to be announced at a future date.
• Homework #6 (unchanged)
• “Mini Mind Modules – Inner Robots & Bias”
• This is your Project Report Brief due Monday, April 13,
2020 by 11:59PM
• Project Report & Software Due: Monday, May 6, 2020
• Exam #2 (unchanged)
• Scheduled as Planned for Wednesday, April 22, 2020

7. Project Report & Software - Monday, May 6, 2020
In this course, students will choose a specific topic for their Project
Report that must be relevant to the course subject matter and especially
relevant to Mini Mind Modules – Inner Robots & Bias. It is important
to emphasize that the Project Report must be submitted on time, on or
before the date established. Project Reports submitted after the Final
Due Date will not be evaluated and will receive a zero. Exceptions to
this policy will be made only in exceptional evidenced situations where
timely communication is received, and still at the discretion of the
Instructor in accordance with the policy of UPRM. As such students are
encouraged to submit their Project Reports well in advance of the Due
Date. Reports are expected to be between 10-14 12-16 pages in PDF
format: double spaced and including figures and references.
Reports having 13 pages or less are expected to be accompanied with
an applicable software demonstration. Demonstration of software is
otherwise optional, but provided for as an opportunity for those students
who would like to exercise their programming skills. Students should
not take on software projects substantively beyond their skill levels.

8. Homework #6: Project Report Brief
• Project Report Brief (Monday, April 13, 2020)
• Project Title
• Relevancy to Topic
• Explain how your project is especially relevant to the topic:
Mini Mind Modules – Inner Robots & Bias
• Detailed Project Description
• At least 3 literature references.
• Will you have a software demonstration? Yes/No
• This HW#6 is already available in Moodle.

9. Reading - Required
• How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
• Chapter 5: Concepts, Goals, and Words
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10. Next Topics – Your Topics
• Programming
• Language
• Applications
• Futurism

11. Programming
• I would like to see more homework like the
second one where we get to either come up
with our own code or modify some code
having to do with AI and machine learning.
• I would like to see more of the technical
side of the AI processing and perhaps an
emotion would be programmed to function
in a non-library dependent manner.

12. Programming – Project Report & Software?
I would like to see more homework like the second one where
we get to either come up with our own code or modify some
code having to do with AI and machine learning.
I would suggest to explore how you may use Colab, or other
online code repository and resource, within your Project
Report & Software activity.

13. Programming - Emotion
• I would like to see more of the technical side of the AI
processing and perhaps an emotion would be programmed to
function in a non-library dependent manner.
I would suggest to explore how you may use Colab, or other
online code repository and resource, within a corresponding
Project Report & Software activity.
We will discuss emotions more during this course, but you
have already learned a great deal regarding the construction of
emotions from the textbook.
You may furthermore choose to regard emotions as simply
another way of thinking, applying the very same HSI model
layers, but where much of the “stimuli” (at Layer 1) comes from
inside your body.

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• Language
• Applications
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15. Language
One of the topics I ask if it is
possible to cover towards a
human perspective, is that of
Natural Language Processing.
We have upcoming classes on
Language and on Inner Voice.
But as a preview regarding our
simulated realities:

16. Language
Layer 5
• Is your subconscious
identifying the intended
words (“language concepts”)?
Layer 6
• Is your Inner Voice “saying”
the intended words in your
head?
Layer 7
• Is your consciousness
understanding what your
Inner Voice is saying?

17. Language – Juana Flip

18. Next Topics – Your Topics
• Applications
• Futurism

19. Applications – Class Discussion
• I would like to talk about AI in entertainment
computing systems, specifically videogames.
• AI's and videogames (an AI acting as a human in a
videogame)
• When the "Emotions and Representations in
Computing Systems" part of the class is reached, I
would love to have a discussion about emotions in
videogames (maybe a general aspect of it and also
a more specific one related to how the game AI
character represent those emotions).
• AI-driven prosthetics for humans.

20. Next Topics – Your Topics
• Futurism

21. Futurism
I would like to talk more about future
implementations of AI and if we will get to
the conscious transfer to another body or
computer one day. Like the Netflix series
Travelers or Altered Carbon.
Through an extension of existing
technologies, if a person had their entire
life documented from birth to present –
could you envision that AI algorithms
could learn to predict the behavior of that
person in ”new” situations?

22. Text Books
I would like to talk more about the
book. I really love the neurological
and psychological aspects of it so I
would really enjoy other's inputs
and opinions about the subjects.
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23. Text Books
A primary reference book for this course
was written by Computer Scientist Marvin
Minsky, ”The Society of Mind," and is
comprised of a collection of essays that
attempt to provide explanations regarding
how minds work.
An electronic version of the book is
available online at:
http://www.acad.bg/ebook/ml/Society%20
of%20Mind.pdf

24. Next Up
• Memory
• Forgetting
• Perception
• Making sense of the senses
• Vision
• Sound
• Touch
• Smell
• Taste
• Language

25. Forgetting
• Block, resist, or ignore?
• Intentional forgetting linked to increased cerebral
engagement with the unwanted information
• To forget something – focus on it first?
• Too strong a focus may strengthen the memory
• To weak a focus may not allow for modification
• Forgetting may be harder than remembering
https://www.sciencealert.com/to-forget-something-you-need-to-think-about-it-neuroscientists-reveal

26. Forget the Picture you Saw?
(Image by Prof. Meléndez)
Try to remember the picture I asked you to forget/remember.
Raise your hand if you forgot it: ___
Raise your hand if you remember it: ___

27. Forget the Picture you just Saw
(Image by Prof. Meléndez)
How many hands were in the picture?
What was the painted image of?

28. Next Up
• Perception
• Making sense of the senses
• Vision
• Sound
• Touch
• Smell
• Taste
• Language