TY - GEN
T1 - Psychopathology, narrative, and cognitive architecture (or: Why AI characters should be just as screwed-up as we are)
AU - Horswill, Ian D
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Historically, AI research has understandably focused on those aspects of cognition that distinguish humans from other animals - in particular, our capacity for complex problem solving. However, with a few notable exceptions, narratives in popular media generally focus on those aspects of human experience that we share with other social animals: attachment, mating and child rearing, violence, group affiliation, and inter-group and inter-individual conflict. Moreover, the stories we tell often focus on the ways in which these processes break down. In this paper, I will argue that current agent architectures don't offer particularly good models of these phenomena, and discuss specific phenomena that I think it would be illuminating to understand at a computational level.
AB - Historically, AI research has understandably focused on those aspects of cognition that distinguish humans from other animals - in particular, our capacity for complex problem solving. However, with a few notable exceptions, narratives in popular media generally focus on those aspects of human experience that we share with other social animals: attachment, mating and child rearing, violence, group affiliation, and inter-group and inter-individual conflict. Moreover, the stories we tell often focus on the ways in which these processes break down. In this paper, I will argue that current agent architectures don't offer particularly good models of these phenomena, and discuss specific phenomena that I think it would be illuminating to understand at a computational level.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51849092980
SN - 9781577353508
T3 - AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report
SP - 49
EP - 54
BT - Intelligent Narrative Technologies - Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, Technical Report
T2 - 2007 AAAI Fall Symposium
Y2 - 9 November 2007 through 11 November 2007
ER -