Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents

• Choice of topic (see below) must be made by noon on Tuesday September 18
• Due before midnight Nov 30

• Selected recent AGI architectures: What are they lacking?
• Is a constructivist approach necessary for realizing AGI?
• Key limitations of constructionist AI for building AGIs
• Critical analysis of an architecture targeting AGI
• Consciousness as knowledge and control of self: Its role in AGI
• Emergent properties in AI architectures: Opportunities, requirements, and challenges for AGI
• The role of logic in AGI
• Balancing implicit and explicit goals in AGI architectures
• Self-inspection in programming languages
• Attention: What can we learn from psychology?
• Consciousness as self-inspection and self-control

The title of your essay need not be verbatim from the list above - but your essay should fit firmly within the immediate scope of these descriptions.

Other topics may be possible - check with instructor if you have suggestions.

Your essay should use the standard reference methodology from the scientific tradition, namely, to cite relevant material where appropriate. Appropriateness includes referencing a paper when:

• The ideas you are expressing are recounting, paraphrasing, or quoting what someone else wrote
• The ideas you are expressing have an obvious precursor
• You want to indicate some relevant material for the context in which you are discussing some ideas. In this case you can use “see e.g.” or “c.f.” to indicate that you are giving that reference more as an example than a direct or ultimate reference.

You should always reference some prior work in your scientific writings, as it helps present a context for how to interpret the terms you are using – those references become stand-ins for the research community you consider most affiliated with your writing, and present a context to the traditions of methodology, term interpretation, philosophy, etc.

I want you to use the APA style of references (google it!), because the reader can see which author names are being referenced without having to look in the bibliography. But if you absolutely must use some other style I may agree to it.