RES.9-003 | Summer 2015 | Graduate

Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course

Unit 5. Vision and Language

Lecture 5.3: Patrick Winston - Story Understanding

Description: The strong story hypothesis that the ability to tell, understand, and recombine stories distinguishes human and primate intelligence, historical perspective on AI and thinking machines, modelling story understanding in the Genesis system.

Instructor: Patrick Winston

The story understanding story: The truth about human intelligence (PDF - 2.4MB)

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