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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Artificial agents"”.
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Ethics for artificial agents
… involved in the design of autonomous software agents ("artificial agents"). Chapter 1 of this thesis considers how best to understand the central projects of this new subfield, and reconstructs a prominent theory of how artificial agents ought to be designed. This theory, which I call the …
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Behavior acquisition in artificial agents
… skill acquisition in robots and simulated agents has been a topic of increasing popularity throughout the last years. Despite impressive progress, autonomous behavior at a level of animals and humans are not yet replicated by machines. Especially when a complex environment demands …
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Fully moral artificial agents: future or fiction
… in technology that includes the development of Artificially Intelligent agents (AI) for various purposes. The extensive progress in AI has reached a point where the introduction of AI agents as android robots or humanoids into society is plausible. This highlights the evolving relationship …
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Aging and Referential Communication: Insights from Interactions with Artificial Agents
… of interactions with humans but also with artificial agents. There are now increasing multidisciplinary efforts to develop technologies that provide assistance and/or companionship to older adults through spoken language interfaces (e.g., smart homes, social robots). Yet, there is little …
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Modelling the emergence of a basis for vocal communication between artificial agents
… signal through a biologically plausible artificial auditory system. By firmly establishing each aspect of our model in current phonetic theory, we are able to make useful claims and justify our inevitable abstractions. For example, Lindblom’s theory of hyper- and hypo-articulation, where …
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A methodology for the assessment of the behavior and performance of artificial agents
… and its realm of use creates a new demand for artificial intelligence (AI) systems: as AI becomes more prevalent, it becomes crucial for it to have a natural, human feel to it in order to best support its application. Consequently, the need for a reliable means of testing and comparing the …
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Emergent Rhythmic Structures as Cultural Phenomena Driven by Social Pressure in a Society of Artificial Agents
… informed by evolutionary computation and artificial life (A-Life). In this process, self-organisation plays a fundamental role. The evolutionary process is steered by the evaluation of rhythmic complexity and by the exposure to rhythmic material. In this thesis, composers and musicologists …
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Autonomous Flight Arcade: Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft
… environments are playable by both humans and artificial agents, making them useful for varied tasks including reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and human experiments. Additionally, we show that interpretable policies can be learned through the Neural Circuit Policy architecture on …
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Agent Modeling In Decision Support System: A Case Study In A Base Hospital System
… activity of the health practitioners and agents in social models which ultimately affect their performance. The aim of this study is to outline the objective decision support elements in mission critical human social models and critically examine the influence of those factors on the …
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INVESTIGATIONS ON COGNITIVE COMPUTATION AND COMPUTATIONAL COGNITION
… cognition can inform the design of improved artificial agents; here, we have focused on modelling concepts inspired by emotion theory. A model of emotional interaction between artificial agents, based on probabilistic finite state automata, is presented: in this model, agents have …
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Evolvable Mathematical Models: A New Artificial Intelligence Paradigm
We develop a novel Artificial Intelligence paradigm to generate autonomously artificial agents as mathematical models of behaviour. Agent/environment inputs are mapped to agent outputs via equation trees which are evolved in a manner similar to Symbolic Regression in Genetic Programming. Equations …
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Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents
… is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right answer. In artificial agents, the primary source of bias is engineering. This dissertation describes an approach, Behavior-Oriented Design (BOD) for engineering complex agents. A …
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Applications in Neurorobotics
… in the real-world can be embedded in mobile agents creating complex patterns of activity believed to be a requirement for understanding higher-order neural function. On the other, the cognitive capabilities of humans remain unparalleled by artificial agents. Emulating biology is one strategy …
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The evolution of coordinated cooperative behaviors
… cognitive architectures and team strategies for artificial agents in the future.
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Universal artificial intelligence: evaluation and benchmarks
The fields of artificial intelligence has struggled since it's inception about fundamental question of what intelligence means and how to measure it. The underlying issue of defining intelligence and it's formal measure are sensitive issues in human culture, both in respect to humans and more so in …
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Explanations for Autonomous Agents
… years have seen an accelerated development of agents and systems capable of sophisticated autonomous behaviour. As the consequences of such agents' actions begin to manifest in society, the need for understanding their decisions motivates the study of mechanisms for obtaining explanations that …
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Building blocks for the mind
… transparency for the behavior of the machine. Artificial agents now perform a variety of high risk jobs alongside humans: the need for justification is apparent when we consider the millions of dollars that can be lost by robotic traders in the stock market over misreading online news [9] or …
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From Animals to Algorithms: Comparative Psychology for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated, capable of completing complex tasks such as playing games, recognising images, and producing human-like language. The problem is, we often cannot explain nor predict their behaviour. In this interdisciplinary …
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Towards Improving and Extending Traditional Robot Autonomy with Human Guided Machine Learning
Traditional autonomy among robotic and other artificial agents was accomplished via automated planning methods that found a viable sequence of actions, which, if executed by an agent, would result in the successful completion of the given task(s). However, many tasks that we would like robotic …
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Trust Evaluation in the IoT Environment
… expected ways. However, trust enforcement in an artificial society like IoT is far more difficult, as the things do not have an inherited judgmental ability to assess risks and other influencing factors to evaluate trust as humans do. Hence, it is important to quantify the perception of trust …
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