Human intelligence has always been a fascinating subject for scientists. Since the inception of Spearman’s general intelligence in the early 1900s, there has been significant progress towards characterizing different aspects of intelligence and its relationship with structural and functional features of the brain. In recent years, the invention of sophisticated brain imaging devices using Diffu...

An extensive literature in psychology, economics, statistics, operations research and management science has dealt with comparing forecasts based on human-expert judgment vs. (statistical) models in a variety of scenarios, mostly finding advantage of the latter, yet acknowledging the necessity of the former. Although computers can use vast amounts of data to make predictions that are often more...

The development of intelligent machines is one of the biggest unsolved challenges in computer science. In this paper, we propose some fundamental properties these machines should have, focusing in particular on communication and learning. We discuss a simple environment that could be used to incrementally teach a machine the basics of natural-language-based communication, as a prerequisite to m...

Hex is a challenging strategy board game for two players. To enhance students’ progress in acquiring understanding and practical experience with complex machine intelligence and programming concepts we developed the Machine Intelligence Hex (MIHex) project. The associated undergraduate student assignment is about designing and implementing Hex players and evaluating them in an automated tournam...

Intelligence is a fairly intuitive concept of our everyday life. As usually acknowledged in psychometrics, “intelligence is the ability measured by intelligence tests”. However, defining what exactly intelligence tests should measure is less obvious. During the last decade, computer scientists have attempted to provide a formal definition of intelligence. There seems now to be the tendency that...

The intelligence failure concerning Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has been the center of political controversy and official investigations in three countries. This article reviews the Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 7 July 2004, Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, a Report ...

A simple exogenous growth model gives conservative estimates of the economic implications of machine intelligence. Machines complement human labor when they become more productive at the jobs they perform, but machines also substitute for human labor by taking over human jobs. At first, expensive hardware and software does only the few jobs where computers have the strongest advantage over huma...

abstract Adaptive predictive search (APS), is a learning system framework, which given little initial domain knowledge, increases its decision-making abilities in complex problems domains. In this paper we give an entirely domain-independent version of APS that we are implementing in the PEIRCE conceptual graphs workbench. By using conceptual graphs as the \base language" a learning system is c...

We study generalization in a committee machine with non{overlapping receptive elds trained to implement a function of the same structure. Using the replica method, we calculate the generalization error in the limit of a large number of hidden units. For continuous weights the generalization error falls oo asymptotically inversely proportional to , the number of training examples per weight. For...