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Review of AGI literature

Synaptic reverberation underlying mnemonic persistent activity

This is a review article published in TRENDS in Neurosciences by Xiao-Jing Wang in 2001. The following two sentences from the abstract summarize the entire review nicely. Stimulus-specific persistent neural activity is the neural process underlying active (working) memory. Since … Continue reading

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New neurons and new memories: how does adult hippocampal neurogenesis affect learning and memory?

This is a Nature review article from 2010 written by Wei Deng, James Aimone and Fred Gage. Timeline and processes involved in the development of a new hippocampal neuron Freshly born neurons develop from neural progenitor cells in the subgranular … Continue reading

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Artificial General Intelligence: Concept, State of the Art, and Future Prospects

Ben Goertzel, Founder of OpenCog, presents a high level summary of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) field in his 2014 review article [1]. Here I summarize the paper and then share my conclusions. Summary The paper can be broken into … Continue reading

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