Building an AI Agent: The Inside

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The Body

The body pf an agent is oonsidered to be on the inside and is like the skeleton or stomach of a biological agent. The body might consist of physical hardware like a computer or a camera but it may also be software. In all cases the body constrains the struture of the agent to conform to a pattern which NEWFOL refers as its 'physics'.    find out more >>

The Mind

By the 'mind' of an agent we mean both the parts that can think about the world and has goals and intensions (these correspond to what we usually think of as happening in the brain) and the parts that interpret the inputs from our sensors and decide what our affector are supposed to do. A thinking mind is modeled in NEWFOL as an IBML type called a [context]. [context]s are the most important data structure understood by the NEWFOL framework and, although can be used in more restricted ways, their use in building AI agents compares with neurons in biological agents.    find out more >>

A [context] (like Gaul) is made up of three parts: a collection of 'mental models' describing the [object]s of interest; a language for making statements about these [object]s; and a collection of [fact]s that enumerates some of the sntenss of the language that are true 'in that [context]'. NEWFOL models an agents cognitive capabilities using [context]s.

Each [context] is a self contained thing thaat contains informstion about some subject. The NEWFOL Framework comes with some built-in [context]s but the IBUKI Database contains over ten million of these 'mental' models that can be licenced forr use in building AI agents. These iBML typrs both 'common ground' knowledge and specialized subject knowledge.    find out more >>