Cognitive Architectures and General Intelligent Systems

In this article, I claim that research on cognitive architectures is an important path to the development of general intelligent systems. I contrast this paradigm with other approaches to constructing such systems, and I review the theoretical commitments associated with a cognitive architecture. These entities were intended to have the same intellectual capacity as humans and they were supposed to exhibit their intelligence in a general way across many different domains. I will refer to this research agenda as aimed at the creation of general intelligent systems. Unfortunately, modern artificial intelligence has largely abandoned this objective, having instead divided into many distinct subfields that care little about generality, intelligence, or even systems.