About this book series

Initially, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aimed at constructing 'thinking machines' - that is, computer systems with human-like, domain-independent intelligence. But this task proved more difficult than expected. As the years passed, AI researchers gradually shifted focus to producing AI systems that intelligently approached specific tasks in relatively narrow domains, basing their works on earlier research from classical disciplines like psychology, logics, linguistics, and computer science. During the past few decades however, research in understanding and reproducing human intelligence has expanded from traditional approaches into diverse areas, including disciplines like neurosciences, neuro-informatics, computational linguistics, and - perhaps most importantly - cognitive science. Moreover, new results in research on neural and probabilistic machine learning, dynamical systems, biological processes in and structures of the brain, as well as robotics and large-scale systems are greatly affecting current research in understanding and reproducing human intelligence. Given the great progress made with these new approaches, more and more researchers from multiple disciplines have recognised the necessity of returning to one of the original goals of AI in the early days, namely to build models of domain-independent intelligence. Increasingly, there is a call to focus less on highly specialised 'narrow AI' problem solving systems, and more on confronting the difficult issues involved in creating 'general AI', i.e. domain-independent intelligence modeling both lower and higher cognitive abilities in one comprising framework. This book series publishes books resulting from theoretical research on and reproductions of general AI. Practically this does not mean to abandon classical findings, but this book series intends to focus on the establishment of new theories and paradigms. At the same time, the series aims at exploring multiple scientific angles and methodologies, certainly including results deriving from research in cognitive science, the neurosciences, theoretical and experimental AI, biology and from innovative interdisciplinary methodologies. Research fields covered by the series include: • Cognitive science, incl. cognitive architecture • (Computational) Neuroscience • Robotics and autonomous systems • Recurrent and Neural networks • Learning theories • Reasoning and knowledge representation • Hybrid systems / neuro-symbolic integration • Semantic web, incl. web services, ontologies • Grid computing • Biological systems • (computational) Biology
Electronic ISSN
1877-3281
Print ISSN
1877-3273
Series Editor
  • Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Book titles in this series

  1. Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1

    A Path to Advanced AGI via Embodied Learning and Cognitive Synergy

    Authors:
    • Ben Goertzel
    • Cassio Pennachin
    • Nil Geisweiller
    • Copyright: 2014

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook
  2. Engineering General Intelligence, Part 2

    The CogPrime Architecture for Integrative, Embodied AGI

    Authors:
    • Ben Goertzel
    • Cassio Pennachin
    • Nil Geisweiller
    • Copyright: 2014

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook

Abstracted and indexed in

  1. DBLP