Kristinn R. Thórisson
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Kristinn R. Thórisson (Þórisson) is an Icelandic artificial intelligence researcher, founder and Managing Director of the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines (IIIM), and co-founder and former co-director of the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA) at Reykjavik University. Thórisson is one of the leading proponents of unified theories of cognition.
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Nationality | Icelander |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Reykjavík University Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines |
Thesis | Communicative Humanoids: a Computational Model of Psychosocial Dialogue Skills (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard A. Bolt, Justine Cassell, Pattie Maes |
Thórisson's research focus is artificial general intelligence (also referred to as artificial general intelligence (AGI) or strong AI) and he has proposed a new methodology[1] for achieving machines with general intelligence. An early demonstration of his constructivist AI methodology was given in the FP-7 funded HUMANOBS project, where an artificial agent autonomously learned from scratch how to do spoken multimodal interviews by observing humans participate in a TV-style interview. The goal-driven self-programming system, called AERA (Autocatalytic Endogenous Reflective Architecture),[2] started out with only a small set of seed knowledge (a few pages of "given" code) and autonomously expanded its capabilities through self-reconfiguration, writing the equivalent of thousands of lines of code on its own, to enable it to perform such a realtime TV interview.[3] Thórisson has also worked extensively on systems integration for artificial intelligence systems in the past, contributing architectural principles for infusing dialogue and human-interaction capabilities into the Honda ASIMO robot.[4]
Kristinn R. Thórisson is currently the Managing Director of the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines, and Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavík University. He was co-founder of semantic Web startup company [Radar Networks] (with [Nova Spivack]), whose online Website [Radar Networks Twine] was one of the first working applications of semantic Web technologies,[5] and served as its Chief Technology Officer 2002–03.