INTELLIGENCE VIA COMPRESSION OF INFORMATION

This book introduces the SP Theory of Intelligence (SPTI), a bold framework for understanding both natural and artificial intelligence via information compression (IC). The name 'SP' is short for Simplicity and Power—two ideas that mean IC as the basis for intelligence. Central in the SPTI is the concept of the SP-Multiple-Alignment, a major discovery with the potential to be as significant for an understanding of intelligence as DNA is for an understanding of biology. It may prove to be the 'double-helix' of intelligence!

With this unifying idea, the book shows how several aspects of intelligence may be integrated seamlessly, including understanding language, the creation of meaningful language, solving problems, making plans, and more. It also reveals a surprising insight: that mathematics can be seen as a set of techniques for IC, and their application. Together, these discoveries point to the exciting possibility of a 'New Mathematics', combining the strengths of the SPTI with more than two thousand years of thinking about mathematics.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Unique Selling Points
• Information Compression in Human Learning, Perception, and Cognition
• The Importance of Research Strategy in the Quest for AGI
• Alternative Perspectives on AI and Models of Human Cognition
• The Origin and Development of the SP Theory of Intelligence
• The SP Theory of Intelligence and Its Realisation in the SP Computer Model
• Unsupervised Learning in People and Other Animals
• Computational Complexity
• The SP Computer Model
• SP-Neural: A Preliminary Version of the SPTI in Terms of Neurons and Their Interconnections and Inter-Communications
• Future Developments and the SP Machine
• Examples of the Versatility of the SP-Multiple-Alignment Concept within the SPCM
• Aspects of the SPTI
• Summary of the Strengths of the SPTI and Its Realisation in the SPCM
• Information Compression Provides an Entirely Novel Perspective on the Foundations of Mathematics, Logic, and Computing
• A 'New Mathematics' as an Integration of Mathematics with the SP Theory of Intelligence
• The Potential of the SPTI as a Theory of Probability
• The Potential of the SPTI as a Theory of Computing
• The Potential for Solutions to Problems, or New Insights, in One or More Sciences
• Conclusion

Readership: Researchers, academics, students, and others interested in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and concepts of 'computing', Psychology and Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Foundations of Mathematics, Mathematics and concepts of 'probability'.