Emergent Inference,or

How can a program becomea self-programming AGI system?

Sergio PissanetzkySelf-programming Workshop

AGI-11

Overview of Emergent Inference

► 1850 ● Helmholtz discovered Unconscious Inference.

► 2005 ● Motivation: Interest in refactoring. ● Scope: Refactoring is universal. ● Approach: Computational experiments.

► Discoveries: ● Partially ordered sets. ● Emergent inference. ● Emergence in complex dynamical systems. ● EI happens in the brain.

Brain experiments

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a = α * χb = δ * μc = α * ψd = δ * ωe = β * φf = β * χg = β * ψh = α * φi = δ * νj = ν + ek = h + il = a + bm = μ + fn = c + dp = θ + nq = ω + gr = π + ls = ρ + k

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CANONICAL MATRIX

The first experiment

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d = δ * ωc = α * ψn = c + dp = θ + nf = β * χm = μ + fb = δ * μa = α * χl = a + br = π + le = β * φj = ν + ei = δ * νh = α * φk = h + is = ρ + kg = β * ψq = ω + g

REFACTOREDPROGRAM

The result from the first experiment

This process is emergent inference

The importance of this discovery:

● it is a rigorous mathematical solution obtained from first principles, not a phenomenological guess or an engineering compromise.● it is universal● it is a side effect of an unrelated process● it requires no domain-specific knowledge● it is not man-made● it is ready for use in computers

Claim

Any system has a natural hierarchical structure that can be found by emergent inference.

Emergent Inference explains emergence and self-organization in complex dynamical systems.

Emergent inference in the brain gives rise to intelligence.

Conjectures

Representing systems as partially ordered sets

Any system of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, CS,...• Model, theory, equations.• z = f(x, y) Set = {x, y, z} Partial order = {x < z, y < z}

A computer program.• Parser.

CFS Brain model = neural network + reduce energy consumption.• C = interconnections memory• F = fire behavior• S = shrink intelligence, emotions, creativity.• Clustering takes place. Iteration forms clusters of clusters.• Clusters are neural cliques, cortical columns, cortical modules.

Traditional software development cycle

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Software Categorization

car position sensors

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Traditional AI and AGI

car drivingprogram

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There is no integration, and no refactoring

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The brain

The brain integrates and refactors naturally

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Emergent inference

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EI integrates and refactors naturally

We need a principle for intelligence

Aeronautical Engineering.- 1800: lift force identified as the principle of flight.

Software engineering.- 1980’s: the automation of objects.- 1990’s: the automation of refactoring.

Artificial intelligence.- 2000’s: the automation of integration.- 2010’s: the automation of self-programming.

Neuroscience.- “the exact way in which the brain enables thought is one of the great mysteries of science.” (Russell-Norvig).- “we are still a long way from understanding how cognitive processes actually work.” (Russell-Norvig) .

Emergent inference is the principle for intelligence

Conclusions

● Self-programming can not be achieved without AGI.

● AGI can not be achieved by writing programs.

● EI is the principle for intelligence, AGI and self-

programming.