Human-level artificial general intelligence and the possibility of a technological singularity. A reaction to Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near, and McDermott's critique of Kurzweil

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 171, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1161-1173

  Goertzel, Ben ^a  

^a NOVAMENTE LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

AGI; Language acquisition; Self modifying software; Singularity virtual worlds; Strong AI

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ITERATIVE METHODS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SELF-MODIFYING SOFTWARE; SINGULARITY VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 36249027155     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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