AGI, the new AI - Artificial General Intelligence. Amazon. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) • TheNanoAge.com. "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. "- Vernor Vinge, NASA Vision-21 Symposium, 1993 Defined as, "the intelligence of a machine that can successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can," Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), or "Strong AI" has been the goal and dream of AI researchers since the mid 1950s.
At that time, many researchers in the field believed that AGI would be realized within a few decades. By the 1970s it was recognized that they had grossly underestimated how difficult it would be to achieve this end. By the early 1980s, Japan's "fifth generation computer" project revived interest in Strong AI and set a ten year plan which, by the late '80s, for the second time, failed to achieve what it set out to accomplish.
Exponential growth in computing power (known as Moore's Law) is the driving force behind AGI. According to Justin Rattner; Intel's CTO, Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Inc.-Research Real A.I. Intro. Introduction This is a book chapter written by Peter Voss and published in "Artificial General Intelligence" - Goertzel, Ben; Pennachin, Cassio (Eds). Written in 2002, this describes the foundation of our project: the low level, conceptual underpinnings that remain an important functioning part of our current more advanced research. Note that many crucial aspects of our current working model of higher-level intelligence are not explicitly detailed in the book chapter that follows below, or were developed after the chapter was written.
Peter Voss is an entrepreneur with a background in electronics, computer systems, software, and management. His research interest in cognitive science and the inter-relationship between philosophy, psychology, ethics and computer science culminated in the development of a breakthrough model of Artificial General Intelligence. He founded Adaptive A.I. Book Chapter also available as Word 2000 (.doc) Essentials of General Intelligence: The direct path to AGI 1. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.
EPFL | Bluebrain. Artificial Intelligence. Defining Artificial Intelligence The phrase “Artificial Intelligence” was first coined by John McCarthy four decades ago. One representative definition is pivoted around comparing intelligent machines with human beings. Another definition is concerned with the performance of machines which historically have been judged to lie within the domain of intelligence. Yet none of these definitions have been universally accepted, probably because the reference of the word “intelligence” which is an immeasurable quantity. A better definition of artificial intelligence, and probably the most accurate would be: An artificial system capable of planning and executing the right task at the right time rationally. Or far simpler: a machine that can act rationally. With all this a common questions arises: Does rational thinking and acting include all characteristics of an intelligent system? If so, how does it represent behavioral intelligence such as learning, perception and planning?
Begin AI Algorithm Fig. Artificial Intelligence, Volume 175, Issues 9-10 In Progress (June 2011) Octopus challenes our understanding of consciousness itself. Inside the mind of the octopus by Sy Montgomery Photograph: Brandon Cole ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. I came to meet Athena, the aquarium’s forty-pound, five-foot-long, two-and-a-half-year-old giant Pacific octopus. For me, it was a momentous occasion. I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange. Many times I have stood mesmerized by an aquarium tank, wondering, as I stared into the horizontal pupils of an octopus’s large, prominent eyes, if she was staring back at me—and if so, what was she thinking? Not long ago, a question like this would have seemed foolish, if not crazy.
Only recently have scientists accorded chimpanzees, so closely related to humans we can share blood transfusions, the dignity of having a mind. I had always longed to meet an octopus. The moment the lid was off, we reached for each other. Artificial Intelligence: Tracking the evolution of the machine age. Apr 21, 2011, 07.21am IST Peter Norvig Forty years ago this December, US President Nixon declared a war on cancer, pledging a "total national commitment" to conquering the disease.
Fifty years ago, US President Kennedy declared a space race, promising to land a man safely on the moon before the end of the decade. And 54 years ago, Artificial Intelligence pioneer Herbert Simon declared that "there are now in the world machines that think" and predicted that a computer would be world chess champion within 10 years. How have these bold efforts fared? The Apollo programme succeeded, but it also marked the end of progress — no human has traveled more than 400 miles away from Earth since 1975.
The same has been true for AI research. Your Microsoft Kinect recognizes motion and gestures well enough that you don't need a video game controller anymore. By contrast, teaching computers to deal with uncertainty, such as identifying an object in a blurry picture, proved more difficult. Why Did Google Pay $400 Million for DeepMind? How much are a dozen deep-learning researchers worth? Apparently, more than $400 million. This week, Google reportedly paid that much to acquire DeepMind Technologies, a startup based in London that had one of the biggest concentrations of researchers anywhere working on deep learning, a relatively new field of artificial intelligence research that aims to achieve tasks like recognizing faces in video or words in human speech (see “Deep Learning”).
The acquisition, aimed at adding skilled experts rather than specific products, marks an acceleration in efforts by Google, Facebook, and other Internet firms to monopolize the biggest brains in artificial intelligence research. Companies like Google expect deep learning to help them create new types of products that can understand and learn from the images, text, and video clogging the Web. As advanced machine learning transitions from a primarily scientific pursuit to one with high industrial importance, Google’s bench is probably deepest.