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The evolution of general intelligence in all animals and machines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2017

Kay E. Holekamp  and
Risto Miikkulainen
Kay E. Holekamp
Affiliation:
Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115holekamp@msu.eduhttp://www.holekamplab.org/ Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
Risto Miikkulainen
Affiliation:
Departments of Computer Science and Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712risto@cs.utexas.eduhttps://www.cs.utexas.edu/~risto/ BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
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Abstract

We strongly agree that general intelligence occurs in many animals but find the cultural intelligence hypothesis of limited usefulness. Any viable hypothesis explaining the evolution of general intelligence should be able to account for it in all species where it is known to occur, and should also predict the conditions under which we can develop machines with general intelligence as well.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e205
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