CogSci Blogs & News Ethics is and should be one the biggest concerns in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). CogSci not only understands the importance, but places ethics at the core of all of our work, and our technology in highly aligned with this perspective. Artificial Intelligence, AGI & Ethics Dave Sherwood & M. Rudolph Ethics is an important consideration when building intelligent machines. As we (Cognitive Science & Solutions, CogSci) transition from proof-of-concept demos to products, we recognize how critical it is to address ethical issues from ..read more

CogSci Adds Marketing Director to Growing Team MARRIOTSVILLE, MD – Cognitive Science & Solutions is pleased to welcome Gordon Hasse to the team as Director of Marketing. CEO David Sherwood expressed excitement for the new addition. “As we begin to focus more on developing a standard AGI product, the role of marketing is becoming crucial for our growth.  We are fortunate to have Hasse at the helm of marketing.”  Gordon Hasse has spent most of his career as a successful marketing and advertising executive, primarily with major New York City advertising agencies, including J. Wa ..read more

The Source of Meaning Dave Sherwood The Challenge of Finding Meaning Our inner lives, our mental lives are built on a foundation of “meaning.” Everything we do has meaning. Everything we see or hear has meaning; everything we think is based on meaning.  Our lives are so deeply bound up with meaning that we cannot have any kind of existence that is independent of meaning. While meaning is clearly the fabric of our lives and has been the object of study and fascination for millennia, it is not well understood. At Cognitive Science & Solutions, meaning is of paramount importance. We ar ..read more

Common-Sense Reasoning or Common-Sense Experiences? Dave Sherwood There has been a lot of discussion about AI and “common sense reasoning.” The discussions typically try to make the point that “common sense reasoning” is the key difference between AI and AGI. But I believe that these discussions are misleading in one important way— they imply that common sense reasoning requires specialized algorithms or processing strategies (such as various types of inference logic.) And these discussions propel the AI community to seek such processing strategies. A more pragmatic view is that the brain ..read more

First press release, entitled “AI Start-up, Focused on Artificial General Intelligence, Demonstrates First Steps Toward Human Reasoning: Investments to-date to continue fueling development of revolutionary Artificial General Intelligence” https://www.newswire.com/news/ai-start-up-focused-on-artificial-general-intelligence-demonstrates-21102165 ..read more

First article published entitled “When will artificial general intelligence be ready for smart weapon and sensor systems?” published in Military Embedded Systems magazine. https://militaryembedded.com/ai/deep-learning/when-will-artificial-general-intelligence-be-ready-for-smart-weapon-and-sensor-systems ..read more

2020 got off to an exciting start by collaborating with some outstanding technical firms–more on this soon ..read more

Founder David L Sherwood announced receipt of the first round of funding from a private investor. The funds will help pay for the patent we will file this year on the Synaptic PetaScale Processor , which can perform more than 10^15 synaptic operations/second (SOPS ..read more

2019 – CogSci was awarded two trademarks related to our technology for knowledge representation: Elastic Representations (the encoded “engrams” in our Associative Engine) Flow Constructors (control logic embedded within the Associative Engine similar to Elastic Representations ..read more

Remembering CogSci Account Exec. Pete Hasse Peter Hasse, lead Account Executive for Cognitive Science & Solutions lost his life suddenly Friday, March 18, 2022.  Pete joined the CogSci team in September of 2021 and immediately made an impact on the company. His knowledge and expertise in communications, sales and marketing vastly increased CogSci’s connections and recognition and in his time as a part of the team he laid the groundwork for the company’s initial investments.  Hasse spent decades working in sales, marketing and communications. His work gained broad recognition a ..read more