Artificial Intelligence: A Child's Play
  We discuss the objectives of any endeavor in creating artificial
intelligence, AI, and provide a possible alternative. Intelligence might be an
unintended consequence of curiosity left to roam free, best exemplified by a
frolicking infant. This suggests that our attempts at AI could have been
misguided. What we actually need to strive for can be termed artificial
curiosity, AC, and intelligence happens as a consequence of those efforts. For
this unintentional yet welcome aftereffect to set in a foundational list of
guiding principles needs to be present. We start with the intuition for this
line of reasoning and formalize it with a series of definitions, assumptions,
ingredients, models and iterative improvements that will be necessary to make
the incubation of intelligence a reality. Our discussion provides conceptual
modifications to the Turing Test and to Searle's Chinese room argument. We
discuss the future implications for society as AI becomes an integral part of
life.
  We provide a road-map for creating intelligence with the technical parts
relegated to the appendix so that the article is accessible to a wide audience.
The central techniques in our formal approach to creating intelligence draw
upon tools and concepts widely used in physics, cognitive science, psychology,
evolutionary biology, statistics, linguistics, communication systems, pattern
recognition, marketing, economics, finance, information science and
computational theory highlighting that solutions for creating artificial
intelligence have to transcend the artificial barriers between various fields
and be highly multi-disciplinary.
