PAPER: Levels of Organization in General Intelligence

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 04:07:01 MDT


A draft of the paper "Levels of Organization in General Intelligence" by
Eliezer Yudkowsky, to appear as a chapter in "Real AI: New Approaches to
Artificial General Intelligence" (Goertzel and Pennachin, eds.,
forthcoming), is now available online.

http://singinst.org/DGI/ (multi-file)
http://singinst.org/DGI.html (single file, 382K)

Abstract:

LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION IN GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

Part I discusses the conceptual foundations of general intelligence as a
discipline, orienting it within the Integrated Causal Model of Tooby and
Cosmides. Part II constitutes the bulk of the paper and discusses the
functional decomposition of general intelligence into a complex supersystem
of interdependent internally specialized processes, and structures the
description using five successive levels of functional organization: Code,
sensory modalities, concepts, thoughts, and deliberation. Part III
discusses probable differences between humans and AIs and points out several
fundamental advantages that minds-in-general potentially possess relative to
current evolved intelligences, especially with respect to recursive
self-improvement.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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