The IDA Technology

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The IDA Technology

• Stan Franklin
  and the
  Conscious Software Research Group

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Introducing IDA

• An intelligent software agent capable of entirely
  automating human information agents
• Customer Service Agents
• Travel Agents
• Insurance Agents
• Loan Officers

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IDA Negotiates
IDA negotiates with clients in natural
languageEnglish
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IDA Accesses Databases
IDA locates and understands information from
databases
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IDA Adheres to Policies
IDA understands and adheres to numerous company
policies
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IDA Makes Decisions
IDA makes sophisticated decisions involving
deliberation and constraint satisfaction
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IDA Produces a Product

• IDA can produce useful products
• Airline tickets
• Loan papers
• Insurance policies

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IDA Generates Hypotheses
IDA generates hypotheses about how minds work to
guide cognitive scientists and neuroscientists
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IDAS Modules and Mechanisms

• PerceptionCopycat ArchitectureHofstadter
• Action SelectionBehavior NetMaes
• Episodic MemorySparse Distributed MemoryKanerva
• EmotionsPandemonium TheoryJackson
• MetacognitionFuzzy Classifier SystemsHolland
• LearningCopycat Architecture, Reinforcement
• Constraint SatisfactionLinear Functional
• Language GenerationPandemonium Theory
• DeliberationPandemonium Theory
• Consciousness Pandemonium Theory

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IDAs Architecture
Metacognition
Database Perception
Constraint Satisfaction
Deliberation
Negotiation
Problem Solving
Behavior Net
Expectation Automization
Consciousness
Perception
Working Memory
Episodic Memory
Emotions
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IDAs Cognitive Cycle
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IDA Technology in Action
Behavior net
Focus
Side lines
Stands
Playing field
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Is IDA Conscious?
IDA is functionally conscious, but what
about subjective experience?
Is IDA the worlds first conscious artifact?