Publications

This page lists key publications related to the AERA system and its underlying research. Publications are grouped into 8 key categories, each of which is related to a unique area or focus of the AERA system and its underlying research.

Most of the publications are from researchers at Reykjavik University - the General Machine Intelligence group - and the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines. Some relevant content from other research groups also appears, especially if we consider it to help with explaining the methodology and underlying principles of AERA and related research.

A paper is listed under a category if (approx.) 25% or more of its content touches on that topic. Thus, any paper may be listed under more than one category.



Definition of AI

On Defining Artificial Intelligence

Author(s): Pei Wang (2020)
Journal: Journal of Artificial General Intelligence 10(2):1-37
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335279198_On_Defining_Artificial_Intelligence


Introduction to the JAGI Special Issue “On Defining Artificial Intelligence”: Commentaries and Author’s Response

Author(s): D. Monett, C. W. P. Lewis & K. R. Thórisson (2020)
Journal: Editorial, Special Issue: On Defining Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, 11(2):1-4
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/JAGI%20Special%20Issue%20On%20Defining%20Artificial%20Intelligence%202020.pdf


Discretionarily Constrained Adaptation Under Insufficient Knowledge & Resources

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson (2020).
Part I: Introductory Commentary, Special Issue: On Defining Artificial Intelligence
Journal: Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, 11(2):7-12
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/DCAULKR-JAGI-2020.pdf


Reductio ad Absurdum: On Oversimplification in Computer Science & its Pernicious Effect on Artificial Intelligence Research

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R. (2013)
Journal: In A. H. M. Abdel-Fattah &K.-U. Kühnberger (eds), Proceedings of the Workshop Formalizing Mechanisms for Artificial General Intelligence and Cognition (Formal MAGiC), Beijing, China, July 31st, 31-35. Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/Thorisson-ReductioAdAbsurdum-AGI2013.pdf


Three fundamental misconceptions of artificial intelligence.

Author(s): Pei Wang(2007)
Journal: In Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 19(3): 249-268 https://cis.temple.edu/~pwang/Publication/AI_Misconceptions.pdf


What Should AGI Learn From AI & CogSci?

Author(s): Pei Wang, Bas R. Steunebrink, and Kristinn R. Th́orisson (2014)
Journal: B. Goerzel, L. Orseau & J. Snaider (eds), Proc. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-14), Aug., Quebec, Canada



Constructivist Methodology

Architectures for Generality & Autonomy: Which Methodology?

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson (2017)
Journal: IJCAI-17 Workshop on Architectures for Generality & Autonomy, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 19, Melbourne, Australia
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/IJCAI17-AGA-WhichMethodology.pdf


Replicode: A Constructivist Programming Paradigm and Language

Author(s): Nivel, E. & K. R. Thórisson (2013)
Journal: Reykjavik University School of Computer Science Technical Report, RUTR-SCS13001
http://cadia.ru.is/wiki/_media/public:publications:replicode.v2.4.rutr-scs13001.pdf


Approaches & Assumptions of Self-Programming in Achieving Artificial General Intelligence

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R., E. Nivel, R. Sanz & P. Wang (2012)
Journal: Editorial, Special Issue of Journal of Artificial General Intelligence on Self-Programming, 3(3):1-10
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/JAGI-Special-Self-Progr-Editorial-ThorissonEtAl-09.pdf


From Constructionist to Constructivist A.I.

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R. (2009)
Journal: AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Washington D.C., Nov. 5-7, 175-183. AAAI Tech Report FS-09-01, AAAI press, Menlo Park, CA
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/CustructivistAI-BICA-09-Thorisson-Keynote.pdf


Holistic Intelligence: Transversal Skills & Current Methodologies

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R. & E. Nivel (2009)
Journal: Proc. of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09), 220-221. Arlington, VA, USA, March 6-9
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/agi-09-TransversalSkills-Thorisson-Nivel.pdf


Self-Programming: Operationalizing Autonomy

Author(s): Nivel, E. & K. R. Thórisson (2009)
Journal: Proc. of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09), 150-155. Arlington, VA, USA, March 6-9
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/agi-09-self-programming-Nivel-Thorisson.pdf


Integrated A.I. Systems

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R. (2007)
Journal: Invited paper at The Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next 50 Years — Commemorating the 1956 Founding of AI as a Research Discipline, July 13-15, 2006, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Minds & Machines, 17:11-25
http://www.springerlink.com/content/y04485h9j3u8x431/fulltext.pdf



Autonomy, Generality & Learning

Seed-Programmed Autonomous General Learning

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson (2020)
Journal: Proc. Machine Learning Research, 131:32-70
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/select_publ.html


Autonomous Cumulative Transfer Learning

Author(s): A. Sheikhlar, K. R. Thórisson & L. Eberding (2020)
Journal: Proc. 13th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, 306-316
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AutonCumulTransfLearn-SheikhlarEtAl-AGI-2020.pdf


Cumulative Learning

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson, J. Bieger, X. Li & P. Wang (2019)
Journal: Proc. 12th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-19), Shenzhen, China, Aug. 6-9, 198-209
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/CumulativeLearning-ThorissonEtAl-AGI-2019.pdf


Cumulative Learning With Causal-Relational Models

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson & A. Talbot (2018)
Journal: Proc. 11th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-18), Prague, Czech Republic, Aug. 22-15, 227-238
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AGI18__Cumulative_Learning_With_Causal_Relational_Models.pdf


Abduction, Deduction & Causal-Relational Models

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson & A. Talbot (2018)
Journal: IJCAI-18 Workshop on Architectures for Generality, Autonomy & Progress in AI, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, Jul. 15
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AEGAP18_Abduction_Deduction_Causal_Relational_Models.pdf


Growing Recursive Self-Improvers

Author(s): B. R. Steunebrink, K. R. Thórisson, J. Schmidhuber (2016)
Journal: B. Steunebrink et al. (eds.), Proc. 9th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-16), July, New York City, 129-139
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AGI16_growing_recursive_self-improvers.pdf


Safe Baby AGI

Author(s): J. Bieger, K. R. Thórisson & P. Wang (2015)
Journal: J. Bieger, B. Goertzel & A. Potapov (eds.), Proc. 8th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-15), July, Berlin, Germany, 46-49
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/SafeBabyAGI-J.BiegerEtAl2015.pdf


Anytime Bounded Rationality

Author(s): E. Nivel, K. R. Thórisson, B. Steunebrink & J. Schmidhüber (2015)
Journal: J. Bieger, B. Goertzel & A. Potapov (eds.), Proc. 8th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-15), July, Berlin, Germany, 121-130
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AnytimeBoundedRationalityagi15_nivelEtAl.pdf


Bounded Seed-AGI

Author(s): Nivel, E., K. R. Thórisson, B. R. Steunebrink.,H. Dindo, G. Pezzulo, M. Rodriguez, C. Hernandez, D. Ognibene, J. Schmidhuber, R. Sanz, H. P. Helgason & A. Chella (2014)
Journal: B. Goerzel, L. Orseau & J. Snaider (eds.), Proc. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-14), Aug., Quebec, Canada, 85-96 https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/BoundedSeedAGI_agi14.pdf


Towards a General Attention Mechanism for Embedded Intelligence Systems

Author(s): Helgason, H. P., K. R. Thórisson, D. Garrett & E. Nivel (2014)
Journal: International Journal of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, 4(1): 1-7
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/HelgasonEtAl-2014-Attention-IJCSAI10339-20140314-163624-3675-40677.pdf


Raising AGI: Tutoring Matters

Author(s): Bieger, J., K. R. Thórisson & D. Garrett (2014)
Journal: B. Goerzel, L. Orseau & J. Snaider (eds), Proc. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-14), Aug., Quebec, Canada, 1-10
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/BiegerEtAl-AGI2014-Raising_AI.pdf


Towards a Programming Paradigm for Control Systems With High Levels of Existential Autonomy

Author(s): Nivel, E. & K. R. Thórisson (2013)
Journal: K-U Kühnberger, S. Rudolph & P. Wang (eds.), Proc. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-13), Jul., Beijing, China, 78-87
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/nivel_thorisson_replicode_AGI13.pdf


Resource-Bounded Machines are Motivated to be Efficient, Effective, & Curious

Author(s): Steunebrink, B. R., J. Koutnik, K. R. Thórisson, E. Nivel & J. Schmidhuber (2013)
Journal: K-U Kühnberger, S. Rudolph & P. Wang (ed.), Proc. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-13), Jul., Beijing, China, 119-129
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/Resource-Bounded-Machines-SteunebrinkEtAl_AGI13.pdf


Predictive Generative Heuristics for Decision-Making in Real-World Environments

Author(s): Helgason, H. P., K. R. Thórisson, E. Nivel & P. Wang (2013)
Journal: K-U Kühnberger, S. Rudolph & P. Wang (eds.), Proc. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-13), Jul., Beijing, China, 50-59
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/Helgason%20et%20al-AGI2013.pdf


Attention Capabilities for AI Systems

Author(s): Helgason, H. P. & K. R. Thórisson (2012)
Journal: Proc. 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation & Robotics, Rome, Italy, July
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/Helgason-Thorisson-AttentionForAI.pdf



Seed-Programmed Cognitive Development

Seed-Programmed Autonomous General Learning

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson (2020)
Journal: Proc. Machine Learning Research, 131:32-70
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/select_publ.html


Growing Recursive Self-Improvers

Author(s): B. R. Steunebrink, K. R. Thórisson, J. Schmidhuber (2016)
Journal: B. Steunebrink et al. (eds.), Proc. 9th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-16), July, New York City, 129-139
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AGI16_growing_recursive_self-improvers.pdf


Anytime Bounded Rationality

Author(s): E. Nivel, K. R. Thórisson, B. Steunebrink & J. Schmidhüber (2015)
Journal: J. Bieger, B. Goertzel & A. Potapov (eds.), Proc. 8th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-15), July, Berlin, Germany, 121-130
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AnytimeBoundedRationalityagi15_nivelEtAl.pdf


Safe Baby AGI

Author(s): J. Bieger, K. R. Thórisson & P. Wang (2015)
Journal: J. Bieger, B. Goertzel & A. Potapov (eds.), Proc. 8th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-15), July, Berlin, Germany, 46-49
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/SafeBabyAGI-J.BiegerEtAl2015.pdf


Bounded Seed-AGI

Author(s): Nivel, E., K. R. Thórisson, B. R. Steunebrink.,H. Dindo, G. Pezzulo, M. Rodriguez, C. Hernandez, D. Ognibene, J. Schmidhuber, R. Sanz, H. P. Helgason & A. Chella (2014)
Journal: B. Goerzel, L. Orseau & J. Snaider (eds.), Proc. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-14), Aug., Quebec, Canada, 85-96
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/BoundedSeedAGI_agi14.pdf


Approaches & Assumptions of Self-Programming in Achieving Artificial General Intelligence

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R., E. Nivel, R. Sanz & P. Wang (2012)
Journal: Editorial, Special Issue of Journal of Artificial General Intelligence on Self-Programming, 3(3):1-10
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/JAGI-Special-Self-Progr-Editorial-ThorissonEtAl-09.pdf


Self-Programming: Operationalizing Autonomy

Author(s): Nivel, E. & K. R. Thórisson (2009)
Journal: Proc. of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09), 150-155. Arlington, VA, USA, March 6-9
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/agi-09-self-programming-Nivel-Thorisson.pdf



Understanding & Explanation

Evaluating Understanding

Author(s): J. Bieger, K. R. Thórisson (2017)
Journal: IJCAI-17 Workshop on Evaluating General-Purpose Intelligence, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 20, Melbourne, Australia
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/IJCAI17-EGPAI-EvaluatingUnderstanding.pdf


About Understanding

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson, D. Kremelberg, B. R. Steunebrink, E. Nivel (2016)
Journal: B. Steunebrink et al. (eds.), Proc. 9th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-16), July, New York City, 106-117
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AGI16_understanding.pdf


Understanding and Common Sense: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson, D. Kremelberg Journal: In International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence. Springer, Cham, 201-211 http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AGI17_Understanding&CommonSense.pdf


Self-Explaining Artificial Intelligence: On the Requirements for Autonomous Explanation Generation

Author(s): Hjörleifur Rörbeck (May 2022)
Master’s Thesis Department of Computer Science at Reykjavík University
http://cadia.ru.is/wiki/_media/public:publications:thesis_final_hr.pdf



Architecture & Intelligence

Autocatalytic Endogenous Reflective Architecture

Author(s): Nivel, E., K. R. Thórisson, H. Dindo, G. Pezzulo, M. Rodriguez, C. Hernandez, B. Steunebrink, D. Ognibene, A. Chella, J. Schmidhuber, R. Sanz & H. P. Helgason (2013) Journal: Reykjavik University School of Computer Science Technical Report, RUTR-SCS13002
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AERA-RUTR-SCS13002.pdf


Bounded Recursive Self-Improvement

Author(s): Nivel, E., K. R. Thórisson, B. R. Steunebrink, H. Dindo, G. Pezzulo, M. Rodriguez, C. Hernandez, D. Ognibene, J. Schmidhuber, R. Sanz, H. P. Helgason, A. Chella & G. K. Jonsson (2013)
Journal: Reykjavik University School of Computer Science Technical Report, RUTR-SCS13006 / arXiv:1312.6764 [cs.AI]
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6764v1


A New Constructivist AI: From Manual Construction to Self-Constructive Systems

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R. (2012)
Journal: P. Wang and B. Goertzel (eds), Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence. Atlantis Thinking Machines, 4:145-171
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/Thorisson_chapt9_TFofAGI_Wang_Goertzel_2012.pdf


Cognitive Architectures & Autonomy: A Comparative Review

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R. & H. P. Helgason (2012)
Journal: Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, 3(2):1-30
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AutonomyCogArchReview-ThorissonHelgason-JAGI-2012.pdf


On Attention Mechanisms for AGI Architectures: A Design Proposal

Author(s): Helgason, H. P., E. Nivel & K. R. Thórisson (2012)
Journal: J. Bach, B. Goertzel & M. Ilké (eds.), Proceedings of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-12), Dec. 8-11, Oxford U., 89-98
http://agi-conference.org/2012/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/paper_16.pdf


Learning Problem Solving Skills from Demonstration: An Architectural Approach

Author(s): H. Dindo, A. Chella, G. La Tona, M. Vitali, E. Nivel & K. R. Thórisson (2011)
Journal: Proc. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-11)
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AGI2011-DINDOetAl.pdf


Achieving Artificial General Intelligence Through Peewee Granularity

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R. & Nivel, E. (2009)
Journal: Proc. of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09), 222-223. Arlington, VA, USA, March 6-9
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/PeeweeGranularity-Thorisson-Nivel-09.pdf


Integrated A.I. Systems

Author(s): Thórisson, K. R. (2007)
Journal: Invited paper at The Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next 50 Years — Commemorating the 1956 Founding of AI as a Research Discipline, July 13-15, 2006, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Minds & Machines, 17:11-25
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11023-007-9055-5.pdf



Evaluation & Demonstration

SAGE: Task-Environment Platform & For Evaluating a Broad Range of Learners

Author(s): L. Eberding, K. R. Thórisson, A. Sheikhlar & S. P. Andrason (2020)
Journal: Proc. 13th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, 72-82
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/SAGE__Task_Environment_Platform_for_Evaluating_a_Broad_Range_of_AI_Learners.pdf
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Evaluation of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence: Why, What & How

Author(s): J. Bieger, K. R. Thórisson, B. R. Steunebrink, T. Thorarensen, J. S. Sigurdardóttir (2016)
Journal: EGPAI 2016 - Evaluating General-Purpose A.I., Workshop held in conjuction with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, The Hague, The Netherlands, Tuesday 30th Aug. 2016.
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/EGPAI_2016_paper_9.pdf


Autonomous Acquisition of Situated Natural Communication

Author(s): K. R. Thórisson, E. Nivel, B. R. Steunebrink., H. P. Helgason, G. Peluzzo, R. Sanz, J. Schmidhuber, H. Dindo, M. Rodriguez, A. Chella, G. Jonsson, D. Ognibene & C. Hernandez (2014)
Journal: International Journal of Computer Science & Information Systems, 9(2):115-131
https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/IJCSIS-ThorissonEtAl2015-2014170208.pdf


Autonomous Acquisition of Natural Language

Author(s): E. Nivel, K. R. Thórisson, B. R. Steunebrink.,H. Dindo, G. Pezzulo, M. Rodriguez, C. Hernandez, D. Ognibene, J. Schmidhuber, R. Sanz, H. P. Helgason, A. Chella & G. Jonsson (2014)
Journal: A. P. dos Reis, P. Kommers & P. Isaías (eds.), Proc. IADIS International Conference on Intelligent Systems & Agents 2014 (ISA-14), Jul., Lisbon, Portugal, 58-66
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https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kris/ftp/AAoNL-wHeadr.pdf