Unlocking the Secrets of Artificial General Intelligence: A Revolutionary Brain for Robots

Discover the groundbreaking book, “An AGI Brain for a Robot,” by John H. Andreae, which presents a comprehensive account and practical demonstration of an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This pioneering work showcases a brain that can be implemented in fast parallel hardware and embodied in the head of a robot moving in the real world.

Associative learning is demonstrated as a powerful technique for novelty seeking, language learning, and planning. This book is a must-read for neuroscientists, robot designers, psychologists, philosophers, and anyone curious about the evolution of the human brain and its specialized functions.

The overarching message of this book is that an AGI, as the brain of a robot, is within our grasp and would work like our own brains. The featured brain, called PP, is not a computer program. Instead, PP is a collection of networks of associations built from J. A. Fodors modules and the authors groups. The associations are acquired by intimate interaction between PP in its robot body and the real world.

Simulations of PP in one of two robots in a simple world demonstrate PP learning from the second robot, which is under human control. This book has garnered praise from esteemed experts in the field, including Professor Daniel C. Dennett and Professor Michael A. Arbib, who likened it to Valentino Braitenbergs 1984 book “Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology.”

Professor Daniel C. Dennett, Director of Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, and author of “From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds,” noted that the book “An AGI Brain for a Robot” is a small book that can catch the interest of readers where a large book can overwhelm and turn them away.

Michael Arbib, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Biological Sciences, and Psychology, University of Southern California, and author of “How the Brain Got Language,” observed that the success of Valentino Braitenbergs “Vehicles” demonstrates the potential of this book to ease a larger audience into thinking about the technicalities of creating general artificial intelligence.

With the increasing presence of robots in our lives, this book provides an entertaining and easily understood look at some of the basic principles of robotics, touching on some of the basic questions of how the mind works. As Michael C. Corballis, Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland, and author of “The Recursive Mind,” puts it, “Robots seem to increasingly invade our lives, to the point that sometimes seems threatening and other-worldly. In this small book, John Andreae shows some of the basic principles of robotics in ways that are entertaining and easily understood, and touch on some of the basic questions of how the mind works.”