A Step toward an Artificial Artificial Intelligence Scientist

Jacques Pitrat (1)

1 MALIRE - Machine Learning and Information Retrieval

This paper describes the system CAIA which must perform some activities of an AI scientist. It includes five agents: the most important ones are MALICE which finds elegant solutions to constraint satisfaction problems, MONITOR which monitors MALICE, and MANAGER. This last agent chooses the tasks it will perform, writes combinatorial programs for solving specific problems, generates the knowledge used by MALICE, performs experiments, explains why an elegant solution has not been found, generates new problems, finds symmetries in the formulation of a problem, gathers the information necessary to find a bug, searches for anomalies in the results, tries various methods to solve difficult problems, etc. CAIA has been working several weeks autonomously. Finally, the results of a "life" of this artificial AI scientist are given and compared with those obtained by human AI scientists.

Mots clés: autonomous systems; artificial scientist; learning; constraint satisfaction problems

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Jacques Pitrat. A Step toward an Artificial Artificial Intelligence Scientist. [Research Report] LIP6. 2008. ⟨hal-03582345⟩