Toward Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

Is a computer simulation of a brain sufficient to make it intelligent Do you need consciousness to have intelligence Do you need to be alive to have consciousness This book has a dual purpose First it provides a multi disciplinary research survey across all branches of neuroscience and AI research that relate to this book s mission of bringing AI research closer to building a human level AI HLAI system It provides an encapsulation of key ideas and concepts and provides all the references for the reader to delve deeper much of the survey coverage is of recent pioneering research Second the final part of this book brings together key concepts from the survey and makes suggestions for building HLAI This book provides accessible explanations of numerous key concepts from neuroscience and artificial intelligence research including The focus on visual processing and thinking and the possible role of brain lateralization toward visual thinking and intelligence Diffuse decision making by ensembles of neurons The inside out model to give HLAI an inner life and the possible role for cognitive architecture implementing the scientific method through the plan do check act cycle within that model learning to learn A neuromodulation feature such as a machine equ