OpenMind Research Institute
A nonprofit research institute focused on basic AI research into how minds arise from computation. Its site frames minds as computational entities capable of goal-directed adaptive behavior in open, uncertain worlds, and lists open questions such as how minds learn in real time from sensorimotor experience and how synthetic and human minds can cooperate. The institute builds on The Alberta Plan for AI Research, says all results will be shared publicly with no intellectual property restrictions, and is recruiting research fellows.
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