Providing Self-Aware Systems with Reflexivity
Artificial Intelligence
2017-07-28 v1
Abstract
We propose a new type of self-aware systems inspired by ideas from higher-order theories of consciousness. First, we discussed the crucial distinction between introspection and reflexion. Then, we focus on computational reflexion as a mechanism by which a computer program can inspect its own code at every stage of the computation. Finally, we provide a formal definition and a proof-of-concept implementation of computational reflexion, viewed as an enriched form of program interpretation and a way to dynamically "augment" a computational process.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1707.08901,
title = {Providing Self-Aware Systems with Reflexivity},
author = {Alessandro Valitutti and Giuseppe Trautteur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08901},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
12 pages plus bibliography, appendices with code description, code of the proof-of-concept implementation, and examples of execution