CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Manual Transmission, K. Anders Ericsson, Edward H. Shortliffe
13 Apr 2017
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Lecture 22: cognitive science and the real world . What makes a field of study important: one response: a field of study is important to the extent that it helps make the world a better place. Part of that is reducing the world"s problems. The human modeling side of cognitive science studies how people actually solve problems, specifying the cognitive functions it takes to do it. The ai engineering side of cognitive science tries to make programs that can solve problems for us, often better than us. Computer systems meant to reproduce the performance of experts in particular domains. The myth of the 10 000 hour rule: originally proposed by psychologist anders ericsson, made popular by malcolm gladwell https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=xs5estc_- good at something which is equivalent to 10k hours) Reaching a high degree of proficiency in some specialized domain. Increased automatization of some aspects of performance that serves to free up attention for other aspects.
