Natural Language Cognitive Architecture: A Prototype Artificial General Intelligence

by David Shapiro

Overview

Deep neural networks have enabled a new generation of flexible machine learning models. These new models can solve tough problems and perform moral and ethical evaluations. On their own, these models can employ reasoning and logic, but they have no long-term memory, and no organization. The models need structure, a framework to handle memory, tasks, and organization.

Enter the Natural Language Cognitive Architecture. Natural language, spoken and written by all humans, is the primary way that we teach each other and learn. Cognitive architectures give form to artificial minds, and the Natural Language Cognitive Architecture gives structure to deep neural networks. This book provides a high level blueprint for AGI as well as a deep dive into the components and theory of general intelligence.

David Shapiro spent more than a decade studying cognition and performed hundreds of experiments with deep neural networks to develop his Natural Language Cognitive Architecture. New technologies, such as AGI, must be democratized. Everyone will be impacted by AGI, so everyone should have a stake in the discussion. Dangers abound with powerful advancements in technology, and David lays out his vision to deploy AGI with integrated guiding principles that he calls the Core Objective Functions. This architecture addresses learning, creation, the control problem, and outer alignment.

This book will walk you through the logic of building your own AGI step by step, component by component. The future lay before us, will you participate in its creation?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781668513118
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/14/2021
Pages:	220
Sales rank:	75,795
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

David Shapiro has been a systems engineer for more than ten years. He has combined his professional expertise with his unquenchable passion for cognition and artificial intelligence to produce the Natural Language Cognitive Architecture. Inspired by science fiction since he was a child, David dreams of a future where intelligent machines aid and support humans in all their endeavors, where scarcity and misery are rapidly fading into the annals of history.