Levels of Organization in General Intelligence is a draft of a paper by Eliezer Yudkowsky, to appear in Ben Goertzel and Cassio Pennachin, (eds.) "Artificial General Intelligence". The draft may differ from the final paper.

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Abstract

Part I discusses the conceptual foundations of general intelligence as a discipline, orienting it within the Integrated Causal Model of Tooby and Cosmides.  Part II constitutes the bulk of the paper and discusses the functional decomposition of general intelligence into a complex supersystem of interdependent internally specialized processes, and structures the description using five successive levels of functional organization:  Code, sensory modalities, concepts, thoughts, and deliberation.  Part III discusses probable differences between humans and AIs and points out several fundamental advantages that minds-in-general potentially possess relative to current evolved intelligences, especially with respect to recursive self-improvement.


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