"3950","Logic, self-awareness and self-improvement: The metacognitive loop and the problem of brittleness","This essay describes a general approach to building perturbation-tolerant autonomous systems, based on the conviction that artificial agents should be able notice when something is amiss, assess the anomaly, and guide a solution into place. We call this basic strategy of self-guided learning the metacognitive loop; it involves the system monitoring, reasoning about, and, when necessary, altering its own decision-making components. In this essay, we (a) argue that equipping agents with a metacognitive loop can help to overcome the brittleness problem, (b) detail the metacognitive loop and its relation to our ongoing work on time-sensitive commonsense reasoning, (c) describe specific, implemented systems whose perturbation tolerance was improved by adding a metacognitive loop, and (d) outline both short-term and long-term research agendas.","http://cogprints.org/3950/","Anderson, Dr. Michael L. and Perlis, Prof. Donald R.","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Anderson, Dr. Michael L.</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Perlis, Prof. Donald R.</span>     (2005)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/3950/\"><em>Logic, self-awareness and self-improvement: The metacognitive loop and the problem of brittleness.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]           ","","2005-02"