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A New Constructivist AI: From Manual Methods to Self-Constructive Systems

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Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence

Part of the book series: Atlantis Thinking Machines ((ATLANTISTM,volume 4))

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The development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has to date been largely one of manual labor. This constructionist approach to AI has resulted in systems with limited-domain application and severe performance brittleness. No AI architecture to date incorporates, in a single system, the many features that make natural intelligence general-purpose, including system-wide attention, analogy-making, system-wide learning, and various other complex transversal functions.

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Thórisson, K.R. (2012). A New Constructivist AI: From Manual Methods to Self-Constructive Systems. In: Wang, P., Goertzel, B. (eds) Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence. Atlantis Thinking Machines, vol 4. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-62-6_9

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