Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Methodology
ZHONG Yi-Xin
Department of Intelligence Science and Network Engineering,School of Computer Science,Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing 100876
The following breakthroughs have been made in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) research over the last decade: 1) The common kernel mechanism of intelligence formation, the information-knowledge-intelligence conversion, was discovered. Thus, the mechanism simulation of intelligence was established. 2)The knowledge ecological structure, the empirical knowledge-regular knowledge-commonsense knowledge growth, which is all supported by innate knowledge, was discovered. 3) The combination of 1) and 2) has led to another discovery that the existing and independent AI approaches, the structural simulation approach to cortex of the brain, the functional simulation approach to the logical thinking, and the behavior simulation approach to the intelligent beings are three special harmonious cases of the mechanism simulation of intelligence under respective knowledge. Therefore, the unified simulation approach and AI theory are achieved, which opens up prospects for AI research. It is believed that the radical source for the breakthroughs in AI is the innovation of scientific methodology.
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