We describe the architecture of an artificial agent whose task is to explore unknown environments. It is assumed that the behavior of the agent is partly (and in a simplified version of the agent, even wholly) controlled by surprise. We describe the computational model of surprise incorporated in the architecture, briefly report on related empirical research on surprise intensity in humans, and summarize the results of simulation studies that compared a purely surprise-motivated agent to agents with additional motives.
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18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, April 2006
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