Towards Cognitive Bots: Architectural Research Challenges

Habtom Kahsay Gidey, Peter Hillmann, Andreas Karcher, Alois Knoll

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Abstract

Software bots operating in multiple virtual digital platforms must understand the platforms’ affordances and behave like human users. Platform affordances or features differ from one application platform to another or through a life cycle, requiring such bots to be adaptable. Moreover, bots in such platforms could cooperate with humans or other software agents for work or to learn specific behavior patterns. However, present-day bots, particularly chatbots, other than language processing and prediction, are far from reaching a human user’s behavior level within complex business information systems. They lack the cognitive capabilities to sense and act in such virtual environments, rendering their development a challenge to artificial general intelligence research. In this study, we problematize and investigate assumptions in conceptualizing software bot architecture by directing attention to significant architectural research challenges in developing cognitive bots endowed with complex behavior for operation on information systems. As an outlook, we propose alternate architectural assumptions to consider in future bot design and bot development frameworks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial General Intelligence - 16th International Conference, AGI 2023, Proceedings
EditorsPatrick Hammer, Marjan Alirezaie, Claes Strannegård
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages105-114
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783031334689
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event16th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2023 - Stockholm, Sweden
Duration: 16 Jun 202319 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13921 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2023
Country/TerritorySweden
CityStockholm
Period16/06/2319/06/23

Keywords

  • cognitive architecture
  • cognitive bot
  • problematization

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