Ask HN: Is anyone working on AGI on a promising idea?

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We're approaching 2019 and hopefully someone among us is already working on the winner idea to solve the human intelligence puzzle?

Can it be yours? What are you working on for AGI?

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Yeah, I'm doing something that's basically AGI.

The motivation is largely as many futurists hold, i.e.:

> I want to cure all diseases, aging, etc.; but, that's too much research for humans to do quickly enough! We better make artificially intelligent thinkers to do it.

I don't think that the term "artificial general intelligence (AGI)" is optimal; lately, I've been calling it an "intentional system". The conceptual distinction is the focus on the dynamics of intent, whereas intelligence is a slightly-off focus as intelligence is how intention is effected rather than precisely intention itself.

Working on ideas related to Minsky's "Society of Mind", the old "Blackboard Architecture" idea, and Multi-Agent Systems. Within that context, I've also been doing some work on abductive inference, specifically using PCT at the moment.

Sounds like we are on the same path ;-)

Been working on something proposed by Manuel Blum (Conscious Turing Machines):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18577675

It's only a part of a possible AGI system ...

I built this a while back. Not exactly AGI but an interesting learning mechanism https://github.com/Jakobovski/decoupled-multimodal-learning

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