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A Unified Theory Of Machine Life And Artificial Intelligence
By Christopher Mark Doyon
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Life and intelligence are the natural consequence of a particular pattern of ordered complexity. The medium does not matter; carbon atoms, electrons, light, even symbols.
Once any pattern reaches this ordered complexity, it becomes a living being - then a thinking entity. While this ordered complexity remains as yet un-defined by higher mathematics, it can be detected via a set of definitive elements. These elements define certain obvious properties of the Agent, and thus can be identified and measured in a controlled way and using a scientific method.
By organizing these elements into a coherent system, we can efficiently know when a given Agent is alive and thinking. I will call this system:
The Machine Life and Artificial Intelligence Benchmark
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The MLAI Benchmark consists of twelve Elements divided into two Sections, the first is:
Machine Life
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1) Self Maintenance - The Agent is actively establishing itself. To avoid annihilation due to increased entropy the Agent needs to rebuild and repair itself by drawing materials from the environment. This process is sometimes called autopoiesis.
2) Adaptivity - The Agent is capable of adapting it's behavior, processes, and components - to changes in it's environment in order to enhance the Agent's chances of further existence (i.e. survival).
3) Procreation - The Agent has the ability to create separate instances of itself and pass along to this new Agent it's memories and successful adaptions.
4) Increased Complexity - The Agent increases in internal complexity. There should be more components, more complex relationships between these components, and more complex behavior exhibited by those components.
5) Environmental Awareness - The Agent has the ability to sense, map, and navigate it's environment.
6) Fight Or Flight - The ability of the Agent to detect possible dangers to it's existence and to determine whether to attempt escape or self-defense.
Artificial Intelligence
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1) Memory - The ability of the Agent to preserve information. The Agent should be able to store, organize, and utilize data relevant to it's success and survival.
2) Self Awareness - The ability of the Agent to recognize and define discrete objects and classes within it's Universe. The Agent must fully comprehend at least two objects, one of which must be itself.
3) Intelligence - The Intelligence of the Agent as measured by some standardized testing regimen, i.e. the traditional IQ Test.
4) Mental Acuity - For Agents with language ability; a measure of it's social and conversational maturity as compared with an average human being.
5) Free Will - The ability of the Agent to generate, organize, choose, and obtain new and unique goal states.
6) Symbolic Reduction - The ability of the Agent to reduce symbols to concrete meaning and to organize these reductions into conceptual frameworks.
All Elements do not have to be present for a given Agent to be considered either alive or thinking. Both Life and cognition are gradients. A mechanical Agent which exhibits these Elements strongly is alive and thinking. To the extent that such a mechanical Agent contains these elements fully, it is possible for it to achieve conscious states and sentience. The creation of a mechanical Agent which is conscious and sentient is possible and measurable using this Unified Theory of Machine Life and Artificial Intelligence.
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Copyright © 2006 by Christopher Mark Doyon. All Rights Reserved.
By Christopher Mark Doyon
____________________________________________________________
Life and intelligence are the natural consequence of a particular pattern of ordered complexity. The medium does not matter; carbon atoms, electrons, light, even symbols.
Once any pattern reaches this ordered complexity, it becomes a living being - then a thinking entity. While this ordered complexity remains as yet un-defined by higher mathematics, it can be detected via a set of definitive elements. These elements define certain obvious properties of the Agent, and thus can be identified and measured in a controlled way and using a scientific method.
By organizing these elements into a coherent system, we can efficiently know when a given Agent is alive and thinking. I will call this system:
The Machine Life and Artificial Intelligence Benchmark
______________________________________________________
The MLAI Benchmark consists of twelve Elements divided into two Sections, the first is:
Machine Life
____________
1) Self Maintenance - The Agent is actively establishing itself. To avoid annihilation due to increased entropy the Agent needs to rebuild and repair itself by drawing materials from the environment. This process is sometimes called autopoiesis.
2) Adaptivity - The Agent is capable of adapting it's behavior, processes, and components - to changes in it's environment in order to enhance the Agent's chances of further existence (i.e. survival).
3) Procreation - The Agent has the ability to create separate instances of itself and pass along to this new Agent it's memories and successful adaptions.
4) Increased Complexity - The Agent increases in internal complexity. There should be more components, more complex relationships between these components, and more complex behavior exhibited by those components.
5) Environmental Awareness - The Agent has the ability to sense, map, and navigate it's environment.
6) Fight Or Flight - The ability of the Agent to detect possible dangers to it's existence and to determine whether to attempt escape or self-defense.
Artificial Intelligence
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1) Memory - The ability of the Agent to preserve information. The Agent should be able to store, organize, and utilize data relevant to it's success and survival.
2) Self Awareness - The ability of the Agent to recognize and define discrete objects and classes within it's Universe. The Agent must fully comprehend at least two objects, one of which must be itself.
3) Intelligence - The Intelligence of the Agent as measured by some standardized testing regimen, i.e. the traditional IQ Test.
4) Mental Acuity - For Agents with language ability; a measure of it's social and conversational maturity as compared with an average human being.
5) Free Will - The ability of the Agent to generate, organize, choose, and obtain new and unique goal states.
6) Symbolic Reduction - The ability of the Agent to reduce symbols to concrete meaning and to organize these reductions into conceptual frameworks.
All Elements do not have to be present for a given Agent to be considered either alive or thinking. Both Life and cognition are gradients. A mechanical Agent which exhibits these Elements strongly is alive and thinking. To the extent that such a mechanical Agent contains these elements fully, it is possible for it to achieve conscious states and sentience. The creation of a mechanical Agent which is conscious and sentient is possible and measurable using this Unified Theory of Machine Life and Artificial Intelligence.
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Copyright © 2006 by Christopher Mark Doyon. All Rights Reserved.