Sapient Agents Seven Approaches

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Sapient AgentsSeven Approaches

• Zbigniew Skolicki
• Tomasz Arciszewski

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Agents vs. Agents

• A wide spectrum of possibilities
• Swarm agents vs. complex stand-alone agents
• Manually designed vs. automatically
  derived/adjusted/evolved
• Agents, Intelligent Agents, Sapient Agents

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Agent

• An autonomous system situated within an
  environment, which senses its environment,
  maintains some knowledge and learns upon
  obtaining new data and, finally, which acts in
  pursuit of its own agenda to achieve its goals,
  possibly influencing the environment

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Agent
agent
environment
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Agent
Acting
Reasoning
Sensing
environment
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Intelligent Agent (IA)
Acting
Reasoning
Sensing
environment
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Sapient Agent (SA)
Acting
Reasoning
Wisdom
Sensing
environment
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Seven approaches

• Difficult to give a precise definition at this
  stage
• a definition by coverings

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1. Knowledge Representation

• SA utilizes meta-rules, complex models
• Heuristic rules
• SA understands the whole structure of a knowledge
  graph/ontology

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2. Emergence

• Understanding at global, macroscopic level
• Line of Evolution approaches
• SA recognizes emergent patterns

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3. Exploitation/Exploration

• SA searches for novel design concepts
• SA uses several representation spaces?
• SA focuses on exploration

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4. Evolutionary Computation

• SA makes strategic decisions
• Diversity maintained
• Slow convergence
• Possible short-term diminishment of overall
  performance

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5.Time

• SA has wider (long-term) perspective
• Hierarchical planning
• Holistic understanding in the case of games
• SA makes long term decisions

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6. Domain Dependence

• SA has inter-domain knowledge
• Structural adaptation (not just adjusting
  parameters)
• SA can abstract knowledge at very high level

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7. Chaos

• Identification of attractors
• Multi-solution/stream tracking (as far as
  possible)
• SA understands constraints of real world and
  chooses the safest solution

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Summary
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Conclusions

• First attempt to classify Sapient Agents
• All approaches separate but interrelated
• Looking for Big Picture absolutely crucial for SA
• Good starting point for a discussion
• Much more work necessary

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Thank you

• Questions?