Personal Partner Agents for Cooperative Intelligence

We advocate cooperative intelligence (CI) that achieves its goals in cooperating with other agents, particularly human beings, with limited resources but in complex and dynamic environments. CI is important because it delivers better performances in achieving a broad range of tasks; furthermore, cooperativeness is key to human intelligence, and the processes of cooperation can contribute to help people gain several life values. This paper discusses elements in CI and our research approach to CI. We identify the four aspects of CI: adaptive intelligence, collective intelligence, coordinative intelligence, and collaborative intelligence. We also take an approach that focuses on the implementation of coordinative intelligence in the form of personal partner agents (PPAs) and consider the design of our robotic research platform to physically realize PPAs.

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