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What Sort of Architecture is Required for a Human-Like Agent?

Sloman, Aaron (1998) What Sort of Architecture is Required for a Human-Like Agent? [Book Chapter] (Unpublished)

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This paper is about how to give human-like powers to complete agents. For this the most important design choice concerns the overall architecture. Questions regarding detailed mechanisms, forms of representations, inference capabilities, knowledge etc. are best addressed in the context of a global architecture in which different design decisions need to be linked. Such a design would assemble various kinds of functionality into a complete coherent working system, in which there are many concurrent, partly independent, partly mutually supportive, partly potentially incompatible processes, addressing a multitude of issues on different time scales, including asynchronous, concurrent, motive generators. Designing human like agents is part of the more general problem of understanding design space, niche space and their interrelations, for, in the abstract, there is no one optimal design, as biological diversity on earth shows.

Item Type:Book Chapter
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
ID Code:411
Deposited By: Sloman, Aaron
Deposited On:09 Feb 1998
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:53

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