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AGI and Neuroscience: Open Sourcing the Brain

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Can research into artificial general intelligence actually benefit from neuroscience and vice-versa? Many AGI researchers are interested in the human mind. Within reasonable limits, we can posit that the human mind is a working general intelligence. There is also a strong connection between work on human enhancement and AGI. Here, we note that there are serious limitations to the use of cognitive models as inspiration for the components deemed necessary to produce general intelligence. A closer examination of the neuroscience may reveal missing functions and hidden interactions. This is possible by making explicit the map of brain circuitry at a scope and a resolution that is required to emulate brain functions.

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    Randal A. Koene

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  1. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Lugano, Switzerland

    Jürgen Schmidhuber

  2. Reykjavik University, CADIA, Menntavegi 1, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Kristinn R. Thórisson

  3. Google Research, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, 94043, CA, USA

    Moshe Looks

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Koene, R.A. (2011). AGI and Neuroscience: Open Sourcing the Brain. In: Schmidhuber, J., Thórisson, K.R., Looks, M. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22887-2_50

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