During my PHD Thesis (2003-2007), supervised by Pr. Alain Cardon in LIP6 from P6, I developed a system capable of modifying its internal structure itself according to its objectives, its input data and its knowledge, all in a totally transparent way. That allows one to generate models in real-time. The core of this system is a goals oriented massive multi-agent system. This discovery is as a master algorithm to control machines at a knowledge level (A. Newell). It is a possible core to the development of a computational model for an artificial general intelligence and an artificial consciousness.
I address this problem with a philosophical and constructivist approach. The goal is not to copy the human nervous system or implement a specific cognitive model but to work on this question: what are humans capable of doing thanks to their consciousness? The main goal is to build a system capable of generating questions itself, and behaving according to its assumptions in the real world. To resume, build an artificial consciousness, not a Human artificial consciousness.
Why to build an artificial consciousness ? We have cognitive system services thanks to several industrials, we have deep learning tools thanks a batch of brilliant scientists. But these discoveries don't solve the fact that a human is able to transposing a solution of a problem to a different problem, a human doesn't need to learn 30 millions of patterns to do something. That is to say there is a way to use less energy to solve problems and there is a way to fully control in real-time what an autonomous system does and what will it do instead of a black box.
