Joscha Bach (born 1973 in

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) is a German

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researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems.

Early life and education

Bach was born and grew up in

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, part of the last generation to do so, to

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and

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Jochen Bach and Gisa Bach. He is part of the

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. He received an MA (

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) from

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in 2000 and a PhD ( cognitive science) from Osnabrück University in 2006.https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zoqp8EDcaGiPkdFKM/online-ssc-meetup-with-guest-speaker-joscha-bach-july-19th

Roles

Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. He worked as a visiting researcher at the

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and the

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Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. He then joined

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, working as VP of Research. He is currently a Principal AI Engineer at

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Labs Cognitive Computing group.

Achievements

Bach built MicroPsi, a cognitive architecture extending

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of the

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with taxonomies, inheritance and linguistic labeling; MicroPsi's spreading activation networks allow for neural learning, planning and associative retrieval. He has also worked extensively on novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models

Other

Bach has written a book on cognitive science called ''Principles of Synthetic Intelligence''. Between 2013 and 2017, Bach was attributed research funding by

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charitable funds, according to fact-finding reports from

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and the

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References

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podcast #101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Realit

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