Toward Psycho-robots

TL;DR

This paper proposes a geometrical and dynamical systems approach to model psychological states and flows of ideas, aiming to develop psycho-robots with human-like mental processes for advanced domestic AI systems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel mental space framework for modeling psychological behavior and demonstrates how these models can be used to create psycho-robots with human-like psyche elements.

Findings

Models of mental states as points in a metric space

Dynamical systems describe idea evolution

Potential for psycho-robots with human-like psychological features

Abstract

We try to perform geometrization of psychology by representing mental states, <<ideas>>, by points of a metric space, <<mental space>>. Evolution of ideas is described by dynamical systems in metric mental space. We apply the mental space approach for modeling of flows of unconscious and conscious information in the human brain. In a series of models, Models 1-4, we consider cognitive systems with increasing complexity of psychological behavior determined by structure of flows of ideas. Since our models are in fact models of the AI-type, one immediately recognizes that they can be used for creation of AI-systems, which we call psycho-robots, exhibiting important elements of human psyche. Creation of such psycho-robots may be useful improvement of domestic robots. At the moment domestic robots are merely simple working devices (e.g. vacuum cleaners or lawn mowers) . However, in future one can expect demand in systems which be able not only perform simple work tasks, but would have elements of human self-developing psyche. Such AI-psyche could play an important role both in relations between psycho-robots and their owners as well as between psycho-robots. Since the presence of a huge numbers of psycho-complexes is an essential characteristic of human psychology, it would be interesting to model them in the AI-framework.