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Artificial General Intelligence - 7th International Conference, AGI 2014, Quebec City, QC, Canada, August 1-4, 2014, Proceedings (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Ben Goertzel, Laurent Orseau, Javier Snaider
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI
2014, held in Quebec City, QC, Canada, in August 2014. The 22
papers and 8 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 65
submissions. Researchers have recognized the necessity of returning
to the original goals of the field by treating intelligence as a
whole. Increasingly, there is a call for a transition back to
confronting the more difficult issues of "human-level intelligence"
and more broadly artificial general intelligence. AGI research
differs from the ordinary AI research by stressing on the
versatility and wholeness of intelligence and by carrying out the
engineering practice according to an outline of a system comparable
to the human mind in a certain sense. The AGI conference series has
played and continues to play, a significant role in this resurgence
of research on artificial intelligence in the deeper, original
sense of the term of "artificial intelligence". The conferences
encourage interdisciplinary research based on different
understandings of intelligence and exploring different approaches.
Between Ape and Artilect is edited by noted AI researcher Ben
Goertzel, and produced by futurist organization Humanity+. During
2010-12, Dr. Goertzel conducted a series of textual interviews with
researchers in various areas of cutting-edge science -- artificial
general intelligence, nanotechnology, life extension,
neurotechnology, collective intelligence, mind uploading, body
modification, neuro-spiritual transformation, and more. These
interviews were published online in H+ Magazine, and are here
gathered together in a single volume. The resulting series of
dialogues treats a variety of social, futurological and scientific
topics in a way that is accessible to the educated non-scientist,
yet also deep and honest to the subtleties of the topics being
discussed. Between Ape and Artilect is a must-read if you want the
real views, opinions, ideas, muses and arguments of the people
creating our future. Table of Contents Itamar Arel: AGI via Deep
Learning Pei Wang: What Do You Mean by "AI"? Joscha Bach:
Understanding the Mind Hugo DeGaris: Will There be Cyborgs? DeGaris
Interviews Goertzel: Seeking the Sputnik of AGI Linas Vepstas: AGI,
Open Source and Our Economic Future Joel Pitt: The Benefits of Open
Source for AGI Randal Koene: Substrate-Independent Minds Joao Pedro
de Magalhaes: Ending Aging Aubrey De Grey: Aging and AGI David
Brin: Sousveillance J. Storrs Hall: Intelligent Nano Factories and
Fogs Mohamad Tarifi: AGI and the Emerging Peer-to-Peer Economy
Michael Anissimov: The Risks of Artificial Superintelligence
Muehlhauser & Goertzel: Rationality, Risk, and the Future of
AGI Paul Werbos: Will Humanity Survive? Wendell Wallach: Machine
Morality Francis Heylighen: The Emerging Global Brain Steve
Omohundro: The Wisdom of the Global Brain and the Future of AGI
Alexandra Elbakyan: Beyond the Borg Giulio Prisco: Technological
Transcendence Zhou Changle: Zen and the Art of Intelligent Robotics
Hugo DeGaris: Is God an Alien Mathematician? Lincoln Cannon: The
Most Transhumanist Religion? Natasha Vita-More: Upgrading Humanity
Jeffery Martin & Mikey Siegel: Engineering Enlightenment
This book is a collection of writings by active researchers in the
field of Artificial General Intelligence, on topics of central
importance in the field. Each chapter focuses on one theoretical
problem, proposes a novel solution, and is written in sufficiently
non-technical language to be understandable by advanced
undergraduates or scientists in allied fields. This book is the
very first collection in the field of Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI) focusing on theoretical, conceptual, and
philosophical issues in the creation of thinking machines. All the
authors are researchers actively developing AGI projects, thus
distinguishing the book from much of the theoretical cognitive
science and AI literature, which is generally quite divorced from
practical AGI system building issues. And the discussions are
presented in a way that makes the problems and proposed solutions
understandable to a wide readership of non-specialists, providing a
distinction from the journal and conference-proceedings literature.
The book will benefit AGI researchers and students by giving them a
solid orientation in the conceptual foundations of the field (which
is not currently available anywhere); and it would benefit
researchers in allied fields by giving them a high-level view of
the current state of thinking in the AGI field. Furthermore, by
addressing key topics in the field in a coherent way, the
collection as a whole may play an important role in guiding future
research in both theoretical and practical AGI, and in linking AGI
research with work in allied disciplines
The work outlines a detailed blueprint for the creation of an
Artificial General Intelligence system with capability at the human
level and ultimately beyond, according to the Cog Prime AGI design
and the Open Cog software architecture.
The work outlines a novel conceptual and theoretical framework for
understanding Artificial General Intelligence and based on this
framework outlines a practical roadmap for the development of AGI
with capability at the human level and ultimately beyond.
Best of H+ Magazine, Vol. 1 is edited by counterculture legend R.U.
Sirius, and brought to you by futurist organization Humanity+. It
is our great privilege to live in an era when H+ - the extension of
humanity beyond its traditional biological form - is not merely
fantasy but a reasonable description of the practical, everyday
unfolding of science and technology. H+ Magazine has provided a
venue for edgy, creative thinking about H+ technologies and ideas
since it was founded in 2008. This volume collects some of the best
H+ Magazine articles from the magazine's first few years, when it
was edited by legendary futurist R.U. Sirius.
Table of Contents Preface by Ben Goertzel Preface by R.U. Sirius
The Rise of the Citizen Scientist Why DIY Bio? Re-Engineering the
Human Immune System Self Tracking: The Quantified Life is Worth
Living From Hackerspace to Your Garage Scrapheap Transhumanism DIY
RFID Radically Enhanced Human Body Our Machines/Ourselves:
AI/Bots/The Singularity Ray Kurzweil: The H+ Interview Brain on a
Chip: A Roundup of Projects Working on Silicon Intelligence The
Chinese Singularity Build an Optimal Scientist, Then Retire Here
Come the Neurobots: Brain Bots are Developing Personalities - and a
Whole Lot More Can "Terminators" Actually Be Our Salvation Chronic
Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick Isn't It Time for Cinematic
Sci-Fi Television? Let a Hundred Futures Bloom The Reluctant
Transhumanist Was Michael Jackson a Transhumanist? Gene Genies: BIO
Adventures in Synthetic Biology: Interview with Stanford's Drew
Endy Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives One Atom at a
Time: Nano How Close Are We to Real Nanotechnology? Targeting
Cancer Cells with Nanoparticles Engineering an End to Aging Smart
Biology to the Rescue I Am Ironman : HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb)
Cybernetic Suit My New Sense Organ Sports Enhancement and Life
Enhancement: Different Rules Apply Botox Parties, Michael Jackson,
and the Disillusioned Transhumanist This is Your Brain on
Neurotechnology Optogenetics: The Edge of Neural Control Cognitive
Commodities in the Neuro Marketplace Will We Eventually Upload Our
Minds? Transhumanism at Play Gamification: Turning Work Into Play
The Perils of FDS Fun Deficiency Syndrome The Pursuit of Crappiness
The general problem addressed in this book is a large and important
one: how to usefully deal with huge storehouses of complex
information about real-world situations. Every one of the major
modes of interacting with such storehouses - querying, data mining,
data analysis - is addressed by current technologies only in very
limited and unsatisfactory ways. The impact of a solution to this
problem would be huge and pervasive, as the domains of human
pursuit to which such storehouses are acutely relevant is numerous
and rapidly growing. Finally, we give a more detailed treatment of
one potential solution with this class, based on our prior work
with the Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN) formalism. We show how
PLN can be used to carry out realworld reasoning, by means of a
number of practical examples of reasoning regarding human
activities inreal-world situations.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th
International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI
2012, held in Oxford, UK, in December 2012. The 34 revised full
papers presented together with 4 invited keynote lectures were
carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are
written by leading scientists involved in research and development
of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level
and beyond; with a special focus on humanoid robotics and AGI,
cognitive robotics, creativity and AGI, the future evolution of
advanced AGIs, and the dynamics of AGI goal systems.
Creating Internet Intelligence is an interdisciplinary treatise
exploring the hypothesis that global computer and communication
networks will one day evolve into an autonomous intelligent system,
and making specific recommendations as to what engineers and
scientists can do today to encourage and shape this evolution. A
general theory of intelligent systems is described, based on the
author's previous work; and in this context, the specific notion of
Internet intelligence is fleshed out, in its commercial, social,
psychological, computer-science, philosophical, and theological
aspects. Software engineering work carried out by the author and
his team over the last few years, aimed at seeding the emergence of
Internet intelligence, is reviewed in some detail, including the
Webmind AI Engine, a uniquely powerful Internet-based digital
intelligence, and the Webworld platform for peer-to-peer
distributed cognition and artificial life. The book should be of
interest to computer scientists, philosophers, and social
scientists, and more generally to anyone concerned about the nature
of the mind, or the evolution of computer and Internet technology
and its effect on human life.
Cybernetic pioneer Warren McCullough asked: "What is a man, that he
may know a number; and what is a number, that a man may know it?"
Thinking along much the same lines, my question here is: "What is a
creative mind, that it might emerge from a complex system; and what
is a complex system, that it might give rise to a creative mind?"
Complexity science is a fashionable topic these days. My
perspective on complexity, however, is a somewhat unusual one: I am
interested in complex systems science principally as it reflects on
abstract mathematical, computational models of mind. In my three
previous books, The Structure of Intelligence, Evolving Mind, and
Chaotic Logic, I have outlined a comprehensive
complex-systems-theoretic theory of mind that I now call the psynet
model. This book is a continuation of the research program
presented in my previous books (and those books will be frequently
referred to here, by the nicknames EM and CL). One might summarize
the trajectory of thought spanning these four books as follows. SI
formulated a philosophy and mathem- ics of mind, based on
theoretical computer science and the concept of "pattern. " EM
analyzed the theory of evolution by natural selection in similar
terms, and used this computational theory of evolution to establish
the evolutionary nature of thought.
This book is a collection of writings by active researchers in the
field of Artificial General Intelligence, on topics of central
importance in the field. Each chapter focuses on one theoretical
problem, proposes a novel solution, and is written in sufficiently
non-technical language to be understandable by advanced
undergraduates or scientists in allied fields. This book is the
very first collection in the field of Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI) focusing on theoretical, conceptual, and
philosophical issues in the creation of thinking machines. All the
authors are researchers actively developing AGI projects, thus
distinguishing the book from much of the theoretical cognitive
science and AI literature, which is generally quite divorced from
practical AGI system building issues. And the discussions are
presented in a way that makes the problems and proposed solutions
understandable to a wide readership of non-specialists, providing a
distinction from the journal and conference-proceedings literature.
The book will benefit AGI researchers and students by giving them a
solid orientation in the conceptual foundations of the field (which
is not currently available anywhere); and it would benefit
researchers in allied fields by giving them a high-level view of
the current state of thinking in the AGI field. Furthermore, by
addressing key topics in the field in a coherent way, the
collection as a whole may play an important role in guiding future
research in both theoretical and practical AGI, and in linking AGI
research with work in allied disciplines
This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have
developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years. The
underlying theme is the psychological interplay of order and chaos.
Or, to put it another way, the interplay of deduction and
induction. I will try to explain the relationship between logical,
orderly, conscious, rule-following reason and fluid, self
organizing, habit-governed, unconscious, chaos-infused intuition.
My previous two books, The Structure of Intelligence and The
Evolving Mind, briefly touched on this relationship. But these
books were primarily concerned with other matters: SI with
constructing a formal language for discussing mentality and its
mechanization, and EM with exploring the role of evolution in
thought. They danced around the edges of the order/chaos problem,
without ever fully entering into it. My goal in writing this book
was to go directly to the core of mental process, "where angels
fear to tread" -- to tackle all the sticky issues which it is
considered prudent to avoid: the nature of consciousness, the
relation between mind and reality, the justification of belief
systems, the connection between creativity and mental illness, ....
All of these issues are dealt with here in a straightforward and
unified way, using a combination of concepts from my previous work
with ideas from chaos theory and complex systems science."
Abstract In this chapter we provide an overview of probabilistic
logic networks (PLN), including our motivations for developing PLN
and the guiding principles underlying PLN. We discuss foundational
choices we made, introduce PLN knowledge representation, and
briefly introduce inference rules and truth-values. We also place
PLN in context with other approaches to uncertain inference. 1.1
Motivations This book presents Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN),
a systematic and pragmatic framework for computationally carrying
out uncertain reasoning - r- soning about uncertain data, and/or
reasoning involving uncertain conclusions. We begin with a few
comments about why we believe this is such an interesting and
important domain of investigation. First of all, we hold to a
philosophical perspective in which "reasoning" - properly
understood - plays a central role in cognitive activity. We realize
that other perspectives exist; in particular, logical reasoning is
sometimes construed as a special kind of cognition that humans
carry out only occasionally, as a deviation from their usual
(intuitive, emotional, pragmatic, sensorimotor, etc.) modes of
thought. However, we consider this alternative view to be valid
only according to a very limited definition of "logic." Construed
properly, we suggest, logical reasoning may be understood as the
basic framework underlying all forms of cognition, including those
conventionally thought of as illogical and irrational.
The term Cosmism was introduced by Tsiolokovsky and other Russian
Cosmists around 1900. Goertzel's "Cosmist Manifesto" gives it new
life and a new twist for the 21st century. Cosmism, as Goertzel
presents it, is a practical philosophy for the posthuman era.
Rooted in Western and Eastern philosophy as well as modern
technology and science, it is a way of understanding ourselves and
our universe that makes sense now, and will keep on making sense as
advanced technology exerts its transformative impact as the future
unfolds. Among the many topics considered are AI, nanotechnology,
uploading, immortality, psychedelics, meditation, future social
structures, psi phenomena, alien and cetacean intelligence and the
Singularity. The Cosmist perspective is shown to make plain old
common sense of even the wildest future possibilities.
"Only a small community has concentratedon general intelligence. No
one has tried to make a thinking machine . . . The bottom line is
that we really haven't progressed too far toward a truly
intelligent machine. We have collections of dumb specialists in
small domains; the true majesty of general intelligence still
awaits our attack. . . . We have got to get back to the deepest
questions of AI and general intelligence. . . " -MarvinMinsky as
interviewed in Hal's Legacy, edited by David Stork, 2000. Our goal
in creating this edited volume has been to ?ll an apparent gap in
the scienti?c literature, by providing a coherent presentation of a
body of contemporary research that, in spite of its integral
importance, has hitherto kept a very low pro?le within the
scienti?c and intellectual community. This body of work has not
been given a name before; in this book we christen it "Arti?cial
General Intelligence" (AGI). What distinguishes AGI work from
run-of-the-mill "arti?cial intelligence" research is that it is
explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence in the short
term. We have been active researchers in the AGI ?eld for many
years, and it has been a pleasure to gather together papers from
our colleagues working on related ideas from their own
perspectives. In the Introduction we give a conceptual overview of
the AGI ?eld, and also summarize and interrelate the key ideas of
the papers in the subsequent chapters.
Abstract In this chapter we provide an overview of probabilistic
logic networks (PLN), including our motivations for developing PLN
and the guiding principles underlying PLN. We discuss foundational
choices we made, introduce PLN knowledge representation, and
briefly introduce inference rules and truth-values. We also place
PLN in context with other approaches to uncertain inference. 1.1
Motivations This book presents Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN),
a systematic and pragmatic framework for computationally carrying
out uncertain reasoning - r- soning about uncertain data, and/or
reasoning involving uncertain conclusions. We begin with a few
comments about why we believe this is such an interesting and
important domain of investigation. First of all, we hold to a
philosophical perspective in which "reasoning" - properly
understood - plays a central role in cognitive activity. We realize
that other perspectives exist; in particular, logical reasoning is
sometimes construed as a special kind of cognition that humans
carry out only occasionally, as a deviation from their usual
(intuitive, emotional, pragmatic, sensorimotor, etc.) modes of
thought. However, we consider this alternative view to be valid
only according to a very limited definition of "logic." Construed
properly, we suggest, logical reasoning may be understood as the
basic framework underlying all forms of cognition, including those
conventionally thought of as illogical and irrational.
Adopting a wildly poetic style oscillating transchaotically between
SF, prose poetry and avant-garde literature, "Echoes" explores the
life and mind of an crazed AI researcher in a near-future world, as
he indulges in excesses of sex, drugs, metaphysical and cognitive
philosophy, and communication with elusive microscopic aliens. Does
his superintelligent AI come close to destroying the world, or only
his mind? Only the Psychedelic McBuddha Machine knows for sure.
The Hidden Pattern presents a novel philosophy of mind, intended to
form a coherent conceptual framework within which it is possible to
understand the diverse aspects of mind and intelligence in a
unified way. The central concept of the philosophy presented is the
concept of "pattern": minds and the world they live in and
co-create are viewed as patterned systems of patterns, evolving
over time, and various aspects of subjective experience and
individual and social intelligence are analyzed in detail in this
light. Many of the ideas presented are motivated by recent research
in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and the author's
own AI research is discussed in moderate detail in one chapter.
However, the scope of the book is broader than this, incorporating
insights from sources as diverse as Vedantic philosophy,
psychedelic psychotherapy, Nietzschean and Peircean metaphysics and
quantum theory. One of the unique aspects of the patternist
approach is the way it seamlessly fuses the mechanistic,
engineering-oriented approach to intelligence and the
introspective, experiential approach to intelligence.
Creating Internet Intelligence is an interdisciplinary treatise
exploring the hypothesis that global computer and communication
networks will one day evolve into an autonomous intelligent system,
and making specific recommendations as to what engineers and
scientists can do today to encourage and shape this evolution. A
general theory of intelligent systems is described, based on the
author's previous work; and in this context, the specific notion of
Internet intelligence is fleshed out, in its commercial, social,
psychological, computer-science, philosophical, and theological
aspects. Software engineering work carried out by the author and
his team over the last few years, aimed at seeding the emergence of
Internet intelligence, is reviewed in some detail, including the
Webmind AI Engine, a uniquely powerful Internet-based digital
intelligence, and the Webworld platform for peer-to-peer
distributed cognition and artificial life. The book should be of
interest to computer scientists, philosophers, and social
scientists, and more generally to anyone concerned about the nature
of the mind, or the evolution of computer and Internet technology
and its effect on human life.
Cybernetic pioneer Warren McCullough asked: "What is a man, that he
may know a number; and what is a number, that a man may know it?"
Thinking along much the same lines, my question here is: "What is a
creative mind, that it might emerge from a complex system; and what
is a complex system, that it might give rise to a creative mind?"
Complexity science is a fashionable topic these days. My
perspective on complexity, however, is a somewhat unusual one: I am
interested in complex systems science principally as it reflects on
abstract mathematical, computational models of mind. In my three
previous books, The Structure of Intelligence, Evolving Mind, and
Chaotic Logic, I have outlined a comprehensive
complex-systems-theoretic theory of mind that I now call the psynet
model. This book is a continuation of the research program
presented in my previous books (and those books will be frequently
referred to here, by the nicknames EM and CL). One might summarize
the trajectory of thought spanning these four books as follows. SI
formulated a philosophy and mathem- ics of mind, based on
theoretical computer science and the concept of "pattern. " EM
analyzed the theory of evolution by natural selection in similar
terms, and used this computational theory of evolution to establish
the evolutionary nature of thought.
This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have
developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years. The
underlying theme is the psychological interplay of order and chaos.
Or, to put it another way, the interplay of deduction and
induction. I will try to explain the relationship between logical,
orderly, conscious, rule-following reason and fluid, self
organizing, habit-governed, unconscious, chaos-infused intuition.
My previous two books, The Structure of Intelligence and The
Evolving Mind, briefly touched on this relationship. But these
books were primarily concerned with other matters: SI with
constructing a formal language for discussing mentality and its
mechanization, and EM with exploring the role of evolution in
thought. They danced around the edges of the order/chaos problem,
without ever fully entering into it. My goal in writing this book
was to go directly to the core of mental process, "where angels
fear to tread" -- to tackle all the sticky issues which it is
considered prudent to avoid: the nature of consciousness, the
relation between mind and reality, the justification of belief
systems, the connection between creativity and mental illness, ....
All of these issues are dealt with here in a straightforward and
unified way, using a combination of concepts from my previous work
with ideas from chaos theory and complex systems science."
0. 0 Psychology versus Complex Systems Science Over the last
century, psychology has become much less of an art and much more of
a science. Philosophical speculation is out; data collection is in.
In many ways this has been a very positive trend. Cognitive science
(Mandler, 1985) has given us scientific analyses of a variety of
intelligent behaviors: short-term memory, language processing,
vision processing, etc. And thanks to molecular psychology
(Franklin, 1985), we now have a rudimentary understanding of the
chemical processes underlying personality and mental illness.
However, there is a growing feeling-particularly among
non-psychologists (see e. g. Sommerhoff, 1990) - that, with the new
emphasis on data collection, something important has been lost.
Very little attention is paid to the question of how it all fits
together. The early psychologists, and the classical philosophers
of mind, were concerned with the general nature of mentality as
much as with the mechanisms underlying specific phenomena. But the
new, scientific psychology has made disappointingly little progress
toward the resolution of these more general questions. One way to
deal with this complaint is to dismiss the questions themselves.
After all, one might argue, a scientific psychology cannot be
expected to deal with fuzzy philosophical questions that probably
have little empirical signifi cance. It is interesting that
behaviorists and cognitive scientists tend to be in agreement
regarding the question of the overall structure of the mind."
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Artificial General Intelligence - 15th International Conference, AGI 2022, Seattle, WA, USA, August 19-22, 2022, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Ben Goertzel, Matt Ikle, Alexey Potapov, Denis Ponomaryov
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th
International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI
2022, held as a hybrid event in Seattle, WA, USA, in August
2022.The 31 full papers presented in this book were carefully
reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers cover topics
from foundations of AGI, to AGI approaches and AGI ethics, to the
roles of systems biology, goal generation, and learning systems,
and so much more. Additionally, this volume contains 13 posters.
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