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Associations and Intelligence for AIs

Glue and substrate for learning and cognition

Keno Leon
7 min readOct 24, 2022

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An academic course on AGI is probably decades away but when it is finally written I bet there will be a chapter devoted to associations which as we will see are the foundation of complex behavior be it artificial or biological, come along as we take a look and maybe make that first draft.

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When two objects, qualities, classes, or attributes, viewed together by the mind, are seen under some connexion, that connexion is called a relation. Augustus De Morgan

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Associations imply a relationship between things, that is as general a definition as we can get, if we look at biological associations, ie the process of forming mental connections or bonds between sensations, ideas, or memories we get closer to a working definition but as we are after artificial analogs we would…

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