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What Can Nonhuman Animals, Children, and g Tell Us About Human-Level Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?

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Human-level artificial general intelligence is one of the grandest challenges in science. All evidence should therefore be brought to bear. Here, I summarize highly relevant work from comparative psychology, human intelligence, and developmental psychology. The comparative research points to a set of abilities proposed to separate humans from other animals; then, especially from the human intelligence field and the concept of the general factor g, abstract relational reasoning singles out. Deeper considerations of g suggest how abstract relational reasoning may underpin human cognitive processing itself. Developmental psychology helps clarify what that may mean.

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Kralik, J.D. (2023). What Can Nonhuman Animals, Children, and g Tell Us About Human-Level Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?. In: Goertzel, B., Iklé, M., Potapov, A., Ponomaryov, D. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13539. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19907-3_26

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