If the AGI to be realized first is Brain-inspired, dissemination of the specification for that will raise the level of the overall developers and lower the possibility of AGI being monopolized.

1. Hiroshi YAMAKAWA
Specifications of brain-inspired AGI
development for everyone
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Non-profit organization for Promoting Developments of Brain-inspired AGI

2. We promote development of Brain-inspired AGI
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Atsushi Kanbayashi
Kentaro Goto
Ren Sakaki
Supports
R&D teams
Promote R&D
Project AGI
(Australia)
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Partne
rship

3. Hiroshi Yamakawa, Dr. of Engineer
BA: Particle physics, MD: Condensed matter physics,
Ph. D: Reinforcement Learning, AI&Neuroscience researcher
• Chairperson of the Whole Brain
Architecture Initiative, npo. (since 2015)
• Director of Dwango AI laboratory
• Member of The Human-centered AI
Social Principles Meeting of Japanese
cabinet office
– Released Social principles, Dec.,2018.
• Member of The Conference toward AI
Network Society of Japanese Ministry of
Internal Affairs and Communications
– Released “AI R&D Principles”, July 2017.
• Member of Ethical committee of JSAI
– Released “JSAI Ethical Guidelines”, Feb. 2017.
(JSAI = The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)
• Committee member of IEEE AGI Chapter
of Ethically Aligned Design v3
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4. Whole Brain Architecture approach
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‘to create a human-like AGI by learning from
the architecture of the entire brain’
To reach AGI, we start from mimicking high-level architectures
of the brain, and gradually introduce details as needed
Re-
cognition
Executive
Reward
Utility
Evaluation
State
Transition
Perception Action
Intelligent Agent
Intention
Goal
State
Utility
State
State
Reward
Generation
Environment
Hippo-
campus BG
Neocortex
Amygdala
AI
(1) Develop machine
learning modules for parts
of the brain
(2) Integrate the modules to
create cogni ve
architecture
Basal Ganglia
Neocortex
Amygdala
Hippocampus
Brain
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5. Basic idea of WBAI (2017)
Vision： Create a world in which AI exists in
harmony with humanity.
Values：
• Study: Deepen and spread our expertise.
• Imagine: Broaden our views through public dialogue.
• Build: Create AGI through open collaboration.
http://wba-initiative.org/en/2171/
Mission： Promote the open development of Whole
Brain Architecture
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6. Democratic WBA development make AGI beneficial
Thinking/behaving like a human being
– E.g. Asilomar AI Principles 10) Value Alignment:
Shared by everyone, not specific organizations
– Eg., Asilomar AI Principles 23) Common Good:
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Promoting an open collaborative
development on the brain architecture
Building an human-like intelligence,
guided by neuroscientific knowledge
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Can be the basis of
trust building

7. Architecture
design
Architecture: a graph (= modules +
connections) in brain. (connectome)
Core of Specifications are “Functional circuit”
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Functional Circuit
design
Implementation
Task solving
isolate two processes requiring neuroscientific
knowledge and implementation skill
Architect determine a
functional circuit by
using neuroscientific
knowledge.
Developers concentrate
implementation based
on a functional circuit
Functional circuit: a subgraph within
the architecture and hypothesis of
computational functions.
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Functional
Circuit
module
connection
Subgraph
with functions

8. Open Platform
• Specifications
• Development methodology
• Software platforms
• Knowledge
• Advices
Expanding collaborative AGI development
Architects
Determine a functional circuits as
specifications based
on neuroscientific
knowledge.
Neuroscientists
interested in functional models
AI/ML Experts
Building Brain-inspired AGI
Future Humanity
AI exists in harmony with humanity.
Open specifications will promote democratic AGI dev.
Non-profit organization
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brain-inspired
For acceleration,
more support
and/or
collaboration is
necessary.
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9. Thanks for your attention.
If the AGI to be realized first is Brain-inspired,
dissemination of the specification for that will raise
the level of the overall developers and lower the
possibility of AGI being monopolized.