Companion Cognitive Systems: A Step toward Human-Level AI

Authors

  • Kenneth D. Forbus
  • Thomas R. Hinrichs

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v27i2.1882

Abstract

We are developing Companion Cognitive Systems, a new kind of software that can be effectively treated as a collaborator. Aside from their potential utility, we believe this effort is important because it focuses on three key problems that must be solved to achieve human-level AI: Robust reasoning and learning, interactivity, and longevity. We describe the ideas we are using to develop the first architecture for Companions: analogical processing, grounded in cognitive science for reasoning and learning, sketching and concept maps to improve interactivity, and a distributed agent architecture hosted on a cluster to achieve performance and longevity. We outline some results on learning by accumulating examples derived from our first experimental version.

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Published

2006-06-15

How to Cite

Forbus, K. D., & Hinrichs, T. R. (2006). Companion Cognitive Systems: A Step toward Human-Level AI. AI Magazine, 27(2), 83. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v27i2.1882

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