Artificial General Intelligence [electronic resource] / edited by Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin.

Contemporary Approaches to Artificial General Intelligence -- The Logic of Intelligence -- The Novamente Artificial Intelligence Engine -- Essentials of General Intelligence: The Direct Path to Artificial General Intelligence -- Artificial Brains -- The New AI: General & Sound & Relevant for Physics -- Gödel Machines: Fully Self-referential Optimal Universal Self-improvers -- Universal Algorithmic Intelligence: A Mathematical Top?Down Approach -- Program Search as a Path to Artificial General Intelligence -- The Natural Way to Artificial Intelligence -- 3D Simulation: the Key to A.I. -- Levels of Organization in General Intelligence.

This is the first book on current research on artificial general intelligence (AGI), work explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence – autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence. Each author explains a specific aspect of AGI in detail in each chapter, while also investigating the common themes in the work of diverse groups, and posing the big, open questions in this vital area. The book will be of interest to researchers and students who require a coherent treatment of AGI and the relationships between AI and related fields such as physics, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology and engineering.