<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In recent years broad community of researchers has emerged, focusing on the original ambitious goals of the AI field - the creation and study of software or hardware systems with general intelligence comparable to, and ultimately perhaps greater than, that of human beings. This paper surveys this diverse community and its progress. Approaches to defining the concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) are reviewed including mathematical formalisms, engineering, and biology inspired perspectives. The spectrum of designs for AGI systems includes systems with symbolic, emergentist, hybrid and universalist characteristics. Metrics for general intelligence are evaluated, with a conclusion that, although metrics for assessing the achievement of human-level AGI may be relatively straightforward (e.g. the Turing Test, or a robot that can graduate from elementary school or university), metrics for assessing partial progress remain more controversial and problematic.</p></abstract>

In recent years broad community of researchers has emerged, focusing on the original ambitious goals of the AI field - the creation and study of software or hardware systems with general intelligence comparable to, and ultimately perhaps greater than, that of human beings. This paper surveys this diverse community and its progress. Approaches to defining the concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) are reviewed including mathematical formalisms, engineering, and biology inspired perspectives. The spectrum of designs for AGI systems includes systems with symbolic, emergentist, hybrid and universalist characteristics. Metrics for general intelligence are evaluated, with a conclusion that, although metrics for assessing the achievement of human-level AGI may be relatively straightforward (e.g. the Turing Test, or a robot that can graduate from elementary school or university), metrics for assessing partial progress remain more controversial and problematic.

Artificial General Intelligence: Concept, State of the Art, and Future Prospects

OpenCog Foundation G/F, 51C Lung Mei Village Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong

Journal of Artificial General Intelligence

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In recent years broad community of researchers has emerged, focusing on the original ambitious goals of the AI field - the creation and study of software or...

Artificial General Intelligence: Concept, State of the Art, and Future Prospects

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 1 - 48

Accepted: Mar 15, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jagi-2014-0001

Keywords
AGI, general intelligence, cognitive science

© by Ben Goertzel

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Artificial General Intelligence: Concept, State of the Art, and Future Prospects

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 1 - 48

Accepted: Mar 15, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jagi-2014-0001

KeywordsAGI, general intelligence, cognitive science

© by Ben Goertzel

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
AGI, general intelligence, cognitive science