Cognitive Automation Solves Many AI-Hard Problems

Cognitive Automata (or CogBots) address four of the challenge questions of the Between a Rock and a Hard Place Symposium in the affirmative. This approach was designed in 2003, primitively implemented in 2004 and submitted for patent in 2005. A CogBot performs “good enough” calculations and searches; in a multi-level, heterogeneous network; adapting to subtle contexts; and using specialized components (concept automata) to exhibit general intelligence