AI Autonomy: Self‐initiated Open‐world Continual Learning and Adaptation
Abstract
As more and more AI agents are used in practice, it is time to think about how to make these agents fully autonomous so that they can (1) learn by themselves continually in a self‐motivated and self‐initiated manner rather than being retrained offline periodically on the initiation of human engineers and (2) accommodate or adapt to unexpected or novel circumstances. As the real‐world is an open environment that is full of unknowns or novelties, the capabilities of detecting novelties, characterizing them, accommodating/adapting to them, and gathering ground‐truth training data and incrementally learning the unknowns/novelties become critical in making the AI agent more and more knowledgeable, powerful and self‐sustainable over time. The key challenge here is how to automate the process so that it is carried out continually on the agent's own initiative and through its own interactions with humans, other agents and the environment just like human on‐the‐job learning. This paper proposes a framework (called SOLA) for this learning paradigm to promote the research of building autonomous and continual learning enabled AI agents. To show feasibility, an implemented agent is also described.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- May 21, 2023
- Source ID
- 10.1002/aaai.12087
Entities
People
- Bing Liu
- Eric Robertson
- Sahisnu Mazumder
- Scott Grigsby
Organizations
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Intel Corporation
- National Science Foundation
- University of Illinois at Chicago