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Symbol Emergence and the Solutions to Any Task

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The following defines intent, an arbitrary task and its solutions, and then argues that an agent which always constructs what is called an Intensional Solution would qualify as artificial general intelligence. We then explain how natural language may emerge and be acquired by such an agent, conferring the ability to model the intent of other individuals labouring under similar compulsions, because an abstract symbol system and the solution to a task are one and the same.

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  • Tasks
  • Symbol emergence
  • Artificial general intelligence

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    Michael Timothy Bennett

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    Matthew Iklé

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    Alexey Potapov

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Bennett, M.T. (2022). Symbol Emergence and the Solutions to Any Task. In: Goertzel, B., Iklé, M., Potapov, A. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13154. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93758-4_4

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