<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Natural selection has imbued biological agents with motivations moving them to act for survival and reproduction, as well as to learn so as to support both. Artificial agents also require motivations to act in a goal-directed manner and to learn appropriately into various memories. Here we present a biologically inspired motivation system, based on feelings (including emotions) integrated within the LIDA cognitive architecture at a fundamental level. This motivational system, operating within LIDA’s cognitive cycle, provides a repertoire of motivational capacities operating over a range of time scales of increasing complexity. These include alarms, appraisal mechanisms, appetence and aversion, and deliberation and planning.</p></abstract>

Natural selection has imbued biological agents with motivations moving them to act for survival and reproduction, as well as to learn so as to support both. Artificial agents also require motivations to act in a goal-directed manner and to learn appropriately into various memories. Here we present a biologically inspired motivation system, based on feelings (including emotions) integrated within the LIDA cognitive architecture at a fundamental level. This motivational system, operating within LIDA’s cognitive cycle, provides a repertoire of motivational capacities operating over a range of time scales of increasing complexity. These include alarms, appraisal mechanisms, appetence and aversion, and deliberation and planning.

Artificial Motivation for Cognitive Software Agents

Computer Science Department and Institute for Intelligent Systems

Journal of Artificial General Intelligence

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Natural selection has imbued biological agents with motivations moving them to act for survival and reproduction, as well as to learn so as to support both....

Artificial Motivation for Cognitive Software Agents

Published Online: Feb 01, 2020

Page range: 38 - 69

Received: Jan 20, 2017

Accepted: Dec 24, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jagi-2020-0002

Keywords
Artificial Motivation, Emotion, LIDA

© 2020 Ryan J. McCall et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Artificial Motivation for Cognitive Software Agents

Published Online: Feb 01, 2020

Page range: 38 - 69

Received: Jan 20, 2017

Accepted: Dec 24, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jagi-2020-0002

KeywordsArtificial Motivation, Emotion, LIDA

© 2020 Ryan J. McCall et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Artificial Motivation, Emotion, LIDA