A World-Self Model Towards Understanding Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has achieved tremendous successes in various tasks, while it is still out of question that there are big gaps between artificial and human intelligence, and the nature of intelligence is still in darkness. In this work we will first stress the importance of defining the scope of discussion and choosing the right physical and informational granularity of investigation. We will carefully compare human and artificial intelligence, and propose that the information abstraction mechanism of human intelligence is the key to connect perception and cognition, and the lack of a new model is preventing the understanding and next-level implementation of intelligence. We will present the broader idea of "concept", the principles and mathematical frameworks of the new model World-Self Model (WSM) of intelligence, and finally an unified general framework of intelligence based on WSM. Rather than focusing on solving a specific problem or discussing a certain kind of intelligence, our work is instead towards a better understanding of the nature of the general phenomenon of intelligence, independent of the task or system of investigation.
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