Harmonized Engineering of Artificial and Biological Intelligence

As a field of academic research, AI was established at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in upstate New York in 1956. Many and various studies have been conducted since then, but in recent years methods such as machine learning and deep learning, combined with advances in brain science and computing, have led to a dramatic rise in interest in AI. Nevertheless, “intelligence” remains a mystery. The presence of intelligence can be felt not just in living organisms with brains, but also in those that have no cranial nerves at all. The ongoing pursuit of research to explore the source of intelligence includes even this latter kind of intelligence. Perhaps it will be possible to harness and seamlessly integrate the source of the intelligence of living things and the AI of (human-engineered) artifacts in the not-too-distant future, to achieve hybrid “co-creation.” When this happens, an AI-based artifacts possessing true intelligence will surely be born.