Toward Human-Level Artificial Intelligence – Neuroscience and the Pursuit of General AI

Is a computer simulation of a brain sufficient to make it intelligent?Do you need consciousness to have intelligence? Do you need to be alive to have consciousness? This book has a dual purpose. First, it provides a multi-disciplinary research survey across all branches of neuroscience and AI research that relate to this book’s mission of bringing AI research closer to building a human-level AI (HLAI) system.It provides an encapsulation of key ideas and concepts and provides in-depth surveys of neuroscience and AI research related to the book's mission, providing all the references for the reader to delve deeper; much of the survey coverage is of recent pioneering research.Second, the final part of this book brings together key concepts from the survey and makes suggestions for building HLAI.This book provides accessible explanations of numerous key concepts from neuroscience and artificial intelligence research, including:The focus on visual processing and thinking and the possible ro