The Novamente Artificial Intelligence Engine

The Novamente AI Engine, a novel AI software system, is briefly reviewed. Novamente is an integrative artificial general intelligence design, which integrates aspects of many prior AI projects and paradigms, including symbolic, probabilistic, evolutionary programming and reinforcement learning approaches; but its overall architecture is unique, drawing on system-theoretic ideas regarding complex mental dynamics and associated emergent patterns. The chapter reviews both the conceptual models of mind and intelligence which inspired the system design, and the concrete architecture of Novamente as a software system.

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