Mechanism:a Unified Theory of AI
Yixin Zhong · Dianzi xuebao · 2006
There have been so far three prestigious schools of AI theory respectively established through the structural,functional and behavioral approaches to human intelligence whereas there have been also,however,controversies among them over the theme of which one of the three should be the one who dominates.It is the author's belief that all the three schools did not cover the essence of intelligence.A new approach,mechanism approach,is thus proposed in the paper to cope with the situation.It is discovered that the mechanism of intelligence formation should be a series of transformations——from information to knowledge and further to intelligence that are discussed in the paper.Interestingly but not surprisingly,the three existed schools of AI theory can well be unified under the framework of the mechanism approach.The mechanism approach and the unification of AI may hopefully provide a new foundation for the future development of AI theory and applications.