The systemic set of processes that enables value-sensitive acquisition, encoding, evaluation, storage, retrieval, decoding and transmission of information. All learning systems are cognitive systems. All living systems and artificial learning-systems are therefore cognitive systems. In other words, cognition is the capacity to learn from experience in a value-sensitive way-discriminating what is beneficial or harmful, and with behavior shaped accordingly.
At its core (dare I say heart), AI is a machine of probability. Word by word, it predicts what is most likely to come next. This continuation is dressed up as conversation, but it isn't cognition. It is a statistical trick that feels more and more like thought. Training reinforces the trick through what's called a loss function. But this isn't a pursuit of truth. It measures how well a sequence of words matches the patterns of human language.
Casasanto stated, "We found the same pattern you always find in righties, whose left hemispheres are specialized for high-frequency visual perception - and the exact opposite in lefties." This indicates a clear distinction of visual processing based on hand dominance.
Cognition is set to acquire Windsurf following a failed $3 billion buyout by OpenAI, which faced internal tensions with Microsoft. Cognition aims to combine its autonomous software with Windsurf's tools.
Cognition is acquiring Windsurf's intellectual property and products, including its AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE), along with all remaining employees not hired by Google.
This international workshop examines the understanding of reasoning in Chinese philosophy beyond formal logic, emphasizing cognition, intuition, and aesthetics as alternative modes of thought.