Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI)
Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien
Tel.+43-1-53532810,5336112
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VORTRAG
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Prof.Dr.Aaron SLOMAN
Cognitive Science Research Center
University of Birmingham
What kind of architecture underlies human affective states?
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An autonomous agent is driven by its own motivation rather than goals
provided for it. I'll discuss some of the distinctive features of human
motivation in terms of their biological functions and engineering
requirements for intelligent autonomous agents. This defines a rich
collection of capabilities related to perception, action, generating
motives, processing motives (e.g. evaluating, selecting, scheduling
them), making and executing plans, reasoning and learning.
The talk presents a coarse-grained characterisation of one sort of
architecture that might meet some of the requirements for autonomy in a
natural or artificial agent with various resource limits, including not
only physical resource limits but also information and information
processing resource limits (e.g. incomplete and partially inaccurate
knowledge, and limited processing resources.)
An architecture designed to address generic requirements and constraints
may be expected to have some characteristically human features, including
some form of self-awareness and the capability of getting into emotional
states involving partial loss of control of attention and thought
processes (which I call "perturbances").
All this has potentially profound implications for philosophy, for
psychology, for studies of the evolution of mind, and also for the
development of effective therapies and educational practices.
Zeit: Mittwoch, 8.Maerz 1995, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: OeFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1.