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Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals

Juyang Weng, * James McClelland, Alex Pentland, Olaf Sporns, Ida Stockman, Mriganka Sur, Esther Thelen

How does one create an intelligent machine? This problem has Alert me when: proven difficult. Over the past several decades, scientists have taken new articles cite this article one of three approaches: In the first, which is knowledge-based, an Download to Citation intelligent machine in a laboratory is directly programmed to Manager perform a given task. In a second, learning-based approach, a computer is "spoon-fed" human-edited sensory data while the Collections under which machine is controlled by a task-specific learning program. Finally, this article appears: by a "genetic search," robots have evolved through generations by Computers/Mathematics the principle of survival of the fittest, mostly in a computer-simulated virtual world. Although notable, none of these Psychology is powerful enough to lead to machines having the complex, diverse, Science and Policy and highly integrated capabilities of an adult brain, such as vision, speech, and language. Nevertheless, these traditional approaches have served as the incubator for the birth and growth of a new direction for machine intelligence: autonomous mental development. As Kuhn wrote (1), "Failure of existing rules is the prelude to a search for new ones."

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What is autonomous mental development? With time, a brainlike natural or an artificial embodied system, under the control of its intrinsic developmental program (coded in the genes or artificially designed) develops mental capabilities through autonomous real-time interactions with its environments (including its own internal environment and components)...