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Machine Imagination: A Step Toward the Construction of Artistic World Through Storytelling

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Abstract

Development of conscious machines requires the implementation of artifacts that might enable an agent to formulate, represent, and regulate its actions and behaviors in a diverse environment. Regulation involves the rehearsal of all context-based possibilities considering emotional state and goals before execution of motor actions. It also means that an agent should be able to manipulate information that is not directly perceived through sensory stimuli. In order to incorporate these abilities, an agent is required to be constructed with cognitive memories, sensory system, sensory integration, emotion, drives, motivations, and action regulatory system. This study proposes a sub-architecture for QuBIC (cognitive architecture) to generate imaginations in QuBIC agents. The proposed architecture was implemented along with required computational constructs discussed in the paper. Furthermore, the paper presents the empirical analysis showing the potential of the proposed solution to construct imaginations in an agent. Experimental results illustrate how the aforementioned cognitive states participated in the process of machine imagination.

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    Syed Tanweer Shah Bukhari & Wajahat Mahmood Qazi

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Bukhari, S.T.S., Kanwal, A., Qazi, W.M. (2019). Machine Imagination: A Step Toward the Construction of Artistic World Through Storytelling. In: Jan, M., Khan, F., Alam, M. (eds) Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless and IoT-enabled Networks. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99966-1_18

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