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    "pk": 28826,
    "title": "Cultural Affordances in AI Perception",
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    "abstract": "Affordances offer AI research an alternative from\nrepresentations for linking perception to action in autonomous\nsystems. Affordances are based in the informational structure\nof the environment and the somatic capacities of the agent\nand arise in their interaction. AI implementations of\naffordance perception typically utilize relatively basic, natural\naffordances such as the graspability of a handle. Culturally-\nscaffolded affordances, such as the letter-mailing capacity of\na postbox, pose a more intractable problem for affordance-\nbased robotics. This class of affordances requires\nacculturation and is highly culture-specific. AI\nimplementations of affordance perception typically bypass\nthis difficulty by making recourse to representations. I begin\nby reviewing affordance perception and the difference\nbetween natural and cultural affordances. I then critically\ndiscuss implementations of cultural affordance perception in\nautonomous agents. Finally, I argue that AI affordance\nperception does not require a robust representationalism in\norder to implement cultural affordances.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "affordances; AI perception; embodied cognition;\nphilosophy of AI; representations"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18h591wj",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Zachariah",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Neemeh",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Memphis",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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