Cognitive architecture requirements for achieving AGI

Abstract

We outline eight characteristics of the environments, tasks, and agents important for human-level intelligence. Treating these characteristics as influences on desired agent behavior, we then derive twelve requirements for general cognitive architectures. Cognitive-architecture designs that meet the requirements should support human-level behavior across a wide range of tasks, embedded in environment similar to the real world. Although requirements introduced here are hypothesized as necessary ones for human-level intelligence, our assumption is the list is not yet su1cient to guarantee the achievement of human-level intelligence when met. However, attempts to be explicit about influences and specific requirements may be more productive than direct comparison of architectural designs and features for communication and interaction about cognitive architectures.