What Do You Mean by

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What Do You Mean by AI?

• Pei Wang
• Temple University
• Philadelphia, USA

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What this is about

• My paper is about the definition of AI
• Oh! Not again! We all have been bored to death by
  this kind of philosophical nonsense
• Why not to talk about NARS?

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Why to raise this issue

• because it is an inevitable question for every
  AI/AGI researcher.
• A working definition of AI establishes the goal
  of the research, as well as basic assumptions and
  evaluation criteria.
• Nobody can really do AI research without a
  working definition of AI.

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Why we should care

• Many problems and debates in traditional AI
  research come from confusions and
  misunderstandings in research goals.
• What distinguishes AGI from the current
  mainstream AI is primarily in research goals.
• Many differences among exiting AGI approaches
  origin in their concrete goals.

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What we do agree

• The best example of intelligence is human
  intelligence, which comes from the human mind.
• AI should be similar to the human mind, in some
  sense.
• AI cannot be identical to the human mind in all
  senses AI does not aim at artificial person.

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What we dont agree

• In which sense AI is similar (or even identical)
  to the human mind?
• Structure building brain models
• Behavior passing Turing test
• Capability solving practical problems
• Function having cognitive faculties
• Principle reaching rationality/optimality

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What the difference is

• Each type of working definition sets a valid
  research goal, and the research produces results
  of theoretical and practical values.
• However, these goals and values are different,
  and do not equivalent of each other (though they
  are related).
• They are not different trails to the same submit,
  or different parts of the same whole.

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Which is the correct picture
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Why not all together

• The aspects of human mind become separated when
  reproduced in computer.
• We cannot achieve all of them with the same
  efficiency and easiness.
• We should not rule out other forms of
  intelligence.

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What Im not suggesting

• To look for a perfect working definition of AI at
  the current time our understanding of
  intelligence will surely get deeper.
• To debate until we all agree on a working
  definition of AI that will not happen soon.
• To treat every working definition as equally good
  their long-term values are different.

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What Im suggesting

• Select your research goal carefully.
• Make your working definition clear when using
  AI.
• Acknowledge alternative working definitions when
  evaluating other projects.
• AGI treats intelligence as a whole. Well keep
  the diversity of the field, while encourage
  confrontation of ideas.