Transversal Skills Transversal Skills & Current Methodologies& Current Methodologies

Kristinn R. ThKristinn R. Thóórisson & Eric Nivelrisson & Eric Nivel

Artificial General Intelligence Conference, Washington DC, 2009Artificial General Intelligence Conference, Washington DC, 2009

Center for Analysis & Design of Intelligent Agents and School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University

Holistic Intelligence: Holistic Intelligence:

Transversal Cognitive SkillsTransversal Cognitive Skills

LeLearning: An enormously wide range of things can arning: An enormously wide range of things can be learned, regarding the world and the selfbe learned, regarding the world and the selfAttention: To learn new things one must Attention: To learn new things one must understand what to pay attention tounderstand what to pay attention toTemporal grounding: Everything a natural Temporal grounding: Everything a natural intelligence can do is grounded in time, including intelligence can do is grounded in time, including its own operationits own operation

Affect every perceptual, cognitive and motor Affect every perceptual, cognitive and motor skill in natural intelligenceskill in natural intelligenceNot bound to particular levels of detailNot bound to particular levels of detail

Intelligence = ArchitectureIntelligence = Architecture

To have transversal learning, attention and To have transversal learning, attention and temporal grounding meanstemporal grounding means

the whole system learns through experience, which the whole system learns through experience, which meansmeansin environments that change over time, such thatin environments that change over time, such thatthe architecture changes / evolvesthe architecture changes / evolves

Architecture = IntelligenceArchitecture = Intelligence

Implication for AGIImplication for AGI

Architecture must have system-wide support Architecture must have system-wide support for transversal skills...for transversal skills...

S/W Methodologies Focus on “objects”S/W Methodologies Focus on “objects”

Focus on “objects” in software engineering Focus on “objects” in software engineering renders (by and large) all current renders (by and large) all current methodologies inapplicable to AGImethodologies inapplicable to AGIE.g.: UML, component-oriented IT, etc.E.g.: UML, component-oriented IT, etc.These methodologies do not provide good These methodologies do not provide good support for the construction of huge amounts support for the construction of huge amounts of interacting heterogeneous processesof interacting heterogeneous processes

ArgumentArgument

For reaching AGI we need new methodologies For reaching AGI we need new methodologies that support construction of large systems with that support construction of large systems with transversal cognitive skill propertiestransversal cognitive skill properties

These methodologies need to enable us to build with These methodologies need to enable us to build with processes, rather than objectsprocesses, rather than objects

We need to take transversal cognitive skills into We need to take transversal cognitive skills into account from the very beginningaccount from the very beginning

resulting in a breadth-first approachresulting in a breadth-first approachThe first systems may be dumb, but at least they will The first systems may be dumb, but at least they will have built-in transversal skills from the get-gohave built-in transversal skills from the get-go