Artificial general intelligence: an organism and level based position statement

Citation

Smith L (2008) Artificial general intelligence: an organism and level based position statement. In: Wang P, Goertzel B & Franklin S (eds.) Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Artificial General Intelligence 2008: Proceedings of the First AGI Conference. The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08), March 1-3, 2008, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA, 01.03.2008-03.03.2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, pp. 429-433. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1566218

Abstract
Do simple animals, even single-celled animals, display general intelligence? If we take this to mean that they can cope with their environment, even when it is dynamic, the answer would have to be yes. What is it that gives them this easy capability, yet makes it hard for us to design systems which have it? We suggest that it is from the non-determinism which arises from the lowest levels of their operation, and from the way in which the different levels of their operation interact.We propose techniques whereby these might be incorporated into artificial systems.

Keywords
Artificial general intelligence; Brain model; Paramecium; Level interaction