Computable Artificial General Intelligence

Abstract

An artificial general intelligence (AGI), by one definition, is an agent that requires less information than any other to make an accurate prediction. It is arguable that the general reinforcement learning agent AIXI not only met this definition, but was the only mathematical formalism to do so. Though a significant result, AIXI was incomputable and its performance subjective. This paper proposes an alternative formalism of AGI which overcomes both problems. Formal proof of its performance is given, along with a simple implementation and experimental results that support these claims.

Computational Dualism and Objective Superintelligence

“…We suggest this problem has a broader significance. The concept of artificial intelligence as a software "mind" interacting with a hardware "body" echoes Descartes' interactionist, substance dualism [17]. Descartes argued mental and physical "substances" interact through the pineal gland which interprets mental events to cause physical events [18], like a UTM interprets software.…”