Advances in artificial general intelligence: Concepts, architectures and algorithms

Abstract

The topic of this book—the creation of software programs displaying broad, deep, human-style general intelligence—is a grand and ambitious one. And yet it is far from a frivolous one: what the papers in this publication illustrate is that it is a fit and proper subject for serious science and engineering exploration. No one has yet created a software program with human-style or (even roughly) human-level general intelligence—but we now have a sufficiently rich intellectual toolkit that it is possible to think about such a possibility in detail. This book arose from the organization of the 2006 AGIRI (Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute) workshop, with the decision to publish a book from contributions by the speakers at the conference.