Meta-Reasoning
Reasoning about
reasoning, or meta-reasoning is a critical
capability for agents attempting to display general intelligence.
Generally intelligent agents must be capable of constantly improving
skills, adapting to changes in the world, and
learning new
information. Meta-reasoning can be deployed implicitly through
mechanisms such as domain-independent learning, or explicitly using,
for example, declarative knowledge
which the agent can interpret and manipulate. The domain-independent
approaches seem the most successful so far.
Other aspects of meta-reasoning include the consideration of
computational costs of processing, leading to the issues such as focused processing and real-time performance.
Architectures having this capability include:
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