Artificial General Intelligence

How to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society. Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every day are based on AI technology. Although some very recent AI systems are generalists to a degree, most AI is narrowly specific; that is, it can only do a single thing, in a single context. For example, your spellchecker can't do mathematics, and the world''s best chess-playing program can't play Tetris. Human intelligence is different. We can solve a variety of tasks, including those we have not seen before. In Togelius starts by giving examples of narrow AI that have superhuman performance in some way. Interestingly, there have been AI systems that are superhuman in some sense for more than half a century. He then discusses what it would mean to have general intelligence, by looking at definitions from psychology, ethology, and computer science. Next, he explores the two main families of technical approaches to developing more general artificial intelligence: foundation models through self-supervised learning, and open-ended learning in virtual environments. The final chapters of the book investigate potential artificial general intelligence beyond the strictly technical aspects. The questions discussed here investigate whether such general AI would be conscious, whether it would pose a risk to humanity, and how it might alter society.

Product details

• Authors: Julian Togelius, Togelius Julian
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.2024
• EAN: 9780262549349
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54934-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Artificial Intelligence, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Information technology: general issues, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies