Psychometric Artificial General Intelligence: The Piaget-MacGuyver Room

Abstract

Psychometric AGI (PAGI) is the brand of AGI that anchors AGI science and engineering to explicit tests, by insisting that for an information-processing (i-p) artifact to be rationally judged generally intelligent, creative, wise, and so on, it must pass a suitable, well-defined test of such mental power(s). Under the tent of PAGI, and inspired by prior thinkers, we introduce the Piaget-MacGyver Room (PMR), which is such that, an i-p artifact can credibly be classified as general-intelligent if and only if it can succeed on any test constructed from the ingredients in this room. No advance notice is given to the engineers of the artifact in question, as to what the test is going to be; only the ingredients in the room are shared ahead of time. These ingredients are roughly equivalent to what would be fair game in the testing of neurobiologically normal Occidental students to see what stage within his theory of cognitive development they are at. Our proposal and analysis puts special emphasis on a kind of cognition that marks Piaget's Stage IV and beyond: viz., the intersection of hypothetico-deduction and analogical reasoning, which we call analogico-deduction).