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We present a set of cognitive phenomena that should be exhibited by a generally intelligent system. To date, we know of few systems that address more than a handful of these phenomena, and none that are able to explain all of them. Thus, these phenomena should motivate a system’s design, test its generality, and can be used to point out fundamental shortcomings. The phenomena encourage autonomo...

This paper examines the paperclip apocalypse concern for artificial general intelligence. This arises when a superintelligent AI with a simple goal (ie., producing paperclips) accumulates power so that all resources are devoted towards that goal and are unavailable for any other use. Conditions are provided under which a paper apocalypse can arise but the model also shows that, under certain ar...

When studying different species in the wild, field biologists can see enormous variation in their behaviors and learning abilities. For example, spotted hyenas and baboons share the same habitat and have similar levels of complexity in their social interactions, but differ widely in how specific vs. general their behaviors are. This paper analyzes two potential factors that lead to this differe...

A program evolution component is proposed for integrative artificial general intelligence. The system’s deployment is intended to be comparable, on Marr’s level of computational theory, to evolutionary mechanisms in human thought. The challenges of program evolution are described, along with the requirements for a program evolution system to be competent solving hard problems quickly, accuratel...

The presence of general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle, which has led to increased interest in its presence in nonhuman animals. The aim of this review is to critically evaluate this question and to explore the implications for current theories about the evolution of cognition. We first review domain-general and domain-specific accounts of human cognition in order to situate att...

Traditional machine learning systems work with relatively flat, uniform data representations, such as feature vectors, time-series, and context-free grammars. However, reality often presents us with data which are best understood in terms of relations, types, hierarchies, and complex functional forms. One possible representational scheme for coping with this sort of complexity is computer progr...

The papers in this special volume of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence are the outcome of a conference on the ‘Impacts and Risks of Artificial General Intelligence’ (AGI-Impacts) that took place at the University of Oxford, St Anne’s College, on 10 and 11 December 2012 – jointly with the fifth annual conference on ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ (AGI-12). The...

We argue that time has come for a serious endeavor to work towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). This positive assessment of the very possibility of AGI has partially its roots in the development of new methodological achievements in the AI area, like new learning paradigms and new integration techniques for different methodologies. The article sketches some of these methods as prototy...