Recognition of All Categories of Entities by AI

TL;DR

This paper discusses the potential for AI to achieve human-level recognition of all entity categories by mapping technological progress and challenges, suggesting near-future capabilities based on philosophical and engineering insights.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive technological map approach using the ontological sextet to analyze AI's ability to recognize all entity types, linking philosophy and engineering.

Findings

AI will likely recognize all entity categories at human level soon

The ontological sextet provides a framework for comprehensive entity recognition

Technological challenges are identified and mapped for future progress

Abstract

Human-level AI will have significant impacts on human society. However, estimates for the realization time are debatable. To arrive at human-level AI, artificial general intelligence (AGI), as opposed to AI systems that are specialized for a specific task, was set as a technically meaningful long-term goal. But now, propelled by advances in deep learning, that achievement is getting much closer. Considering the recent technological developments, it would be meaningful to discuss the completion date of human-level AI through the "comprehensive technology map approach," wherein we map human-level capabilities at a reasonable granularity, identify the current range of technology, and discuss the technical challenges in traversing unexplored areas and predict when all of them will be overcome. This paper presents a new argumentative option to view the ontological sextet, which encompasses entities in a way that is consistent with our everyday intuition and scientific practice, as a comprehensive technological map. Because most of the modeling of the world, in terms of how to interpret it, by an intelligent subject is the recognition of distal entities and the prediction of their temporal evolution, being able to handle all distal entities is a reasonable goal. Based on the findings of philosophy and engineering cognitive technology, we predict that in the relatively near future, AI will be able to recognize various entities to the same degree as humans.