Towards Cognitive-and-Immersive Systems: Experiments in a Shared (or common) Blockworld Framework

09/14/2017
by   Matthew Peveler, et al.
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As computational power has continued to increase, and sensors have become more accurate, the corresponding advent of systems that are cognitive-and-immersive (CAI) has come to pass. CAI systems fall squarely into the intersection of AI with HCI/HRI: such systems interact with and assist the human agents that enter them, in no small part because such systems are infused with AI able to understand and reason about these humans and their beliefs, goals, and plans. We herein explain our approach to engineering CAI systems. We emphasize the capacity of a CAI system to develop and reason over a "theory of the mind" of its humans partners. This capacity means that the AI in question has a sophisticated model of the beliefs, knowledge, goals, desires, emotions, etc. of these humans. To accomplish this engineering, a formal framework of very high expressivity is needed. In our case, this framework is a cognitive event calculus, a partciular kind of quantified multi-modal logic, and a matching high-expressivity planner. To explain, advance, and to a degree validate our approach, we show that a calculus of this type can enable a CAI system to understand a psychologically tricky scenario couched in what we call the cognitive blockworld framework (CBF). CBF includes machinery able to represent and plan over not merely blocks and actions, but also agents and their mental attitudes about other agents.

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