Computational principles of intelligence: learning and reasoning with neural networks

Despite significant achievements and current interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence, the quest for a theory of intelligence, allowing general and efficient problem solving, has done little progress. This work tries to contribute in this direction by proposing a novel framework of intelligence based on three principles. First, the generative and mirroring nature of learned representations of inputs. Second, a grounded, intrinsically motivated and iterative process for learning, problem solving and imagination. Together, those principles create a systems approach offering interpretability, continuous learning, common sense and more.