Abstract:

A completely new approach to artificial intelligence, named mechanism approach, was presented in the paper to cope with the advanced intelligence(AI) research. It was discovered that the core mechanism of intelligence formation is a series of conversions—the one from information to knowledge and the one from knowledge to intelligence (intelligent strategy), or more concisely informationknowledge-intelligence transform. It was also discovered that there is a system of knowledge ecology from experimental knowledge to regular knowledge and further to commonsense knowledge. To combine the mechanism approach and the ecology system of knowledge, it is discovered that the three existed schools of advanced intelligence theory (the structuralism, functionalism, and behaviorism) are unified within the framework of the mechanism approach. More interestingly, it can also be proved that the general form of mechanism approach is the information conversion which is an effective approach to advanced intelligence and as significant as that of material conversion and energy conversion in physics.

Key words: advanced intelligence, mechanism approach, unified artificial intelligence theory, information conversion theory