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Emotion AI Patterns
Fearful Flight
Using the emotion of fear to decide when to take some
special action.
Model Application:
A deer, eating some nice grass, but watching, listening and
smelling for signs of predators, runs away if it becomes
sufficiently afraid.
Reason for Using this Pattern:
It is simpler to hard-code a bunch of independent reasons to be
more afraid than it is to hard-code when a deer should run away.
You get more sophisticated behavior with less complexity.
General Application - may be used to:
monitor a situation with many changing variables to decide when
it would be appropriate to take some special action.
Practical Applications:
- intruder detection
- patient monitoring
- process monitoring
Fight or Flight
This is am implementation of defensiveness, the combination
of fear and greed.
Using the emotions of fear and greed to decide whether to
continue or abandon a risky but (potentially) rewarding option,
activity or venture.
Model Application:
A dog with a bone is challenged by another dog and must either fight
or run away.
Reason for Using this Pattern:
When there is a significant downside to running away,
in addition to a significant downside to not running away
when you should, this pattern provides more sophistication
than the Fearful Flight pattern. Herbivores can get by
with just fear; carnivores, with wealth to acquire and defend,
require greed.
General Application - may be used to:
monitor a changing situation, in which a decision has been
made to do something that offers both risk and potential
reward, to decide when it would be appropriate to reverse
the decision.
Practical Applications:
- speculating
- making mission go/no-go decisions
Curious Crow
Use the emotions of fear, greed and curiosity to decide
which option to choose.
Model Application
A crow, which is a scavenger who lives only so long as it
finds new sources of food, sees some new thing and decides
whether to investigate.
Reason for Using this Pattern:
This pattern uses curiosity, the desire to explore the unknown,
to provide more sophistication than the Fight or Flight pattern
when it is desirable to explore the unknown.
General Application - may be used to:
decide when it is appropriate to pursue what is know (with its
potential risks and rewards) versus explore new possibilities
where both the risks and rewards may be greater.
Practical Applications:
- finding solutions to arbitrarily constrained hard problems
- exploring just about anything
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