How to Make Software Smart Like Humans
January 27, 2025
Artificial intelligence algorithms are still only as smart as they’re programmed. In other words, they’re still software, sometimes stupid pieces of software. Most AI algorithms are trained on large language models (LLMS) and datasets that lack the human magic to make them “think” like a smart 14-year-old. That could change says Science Daily based on the research from Linköping University: “Machine Psychology: A Bridge To General AI?”
The Robert Johansson of Linköping University asserted in his dissertation that psychological learning models combined with AI could be the key to making machines smart like humans. Johansson developed the concept of Machine Psychology and explains that, unlike many people, he’s not afraid of an AI future. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has many positive and negatives. The technology must be carefully created, but AGI could counter many societal destructive developments.
Johansson suggests that AI developers should follow the principle-led path. He means that through his research he’s identified important psychological learning principles that could explain intelligence and they could be implemented in machines. He’s used a logic system called Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System (NARS) that is purposely designed without complete data, computational power, and in real time. This provides the flexibility to handle problems that arise in reality.
NARS works on limited information like a human:
“The combination of NARS and learning psychology principles constitutes an interdisciplinary approach that Robert Johansson calls Machine Psychology, a concept he was the first to coin but more actors have now started to use, including Google DeepMind. The idea is that artificial intelligence should learn from different experiences during its lifetime and then apply what it has learned to many different situations, just as humans begin to do as early as the age of 18 months — something no other animal can do.”
Johansson said that it is possible machines could be as smart as humans within five years. It is a plan, but do computers have the correct infrastructure to handle that type of intelligence? Do humans have the smarts to handle smarter software?
Whitney Grace, January 27, 2025
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