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Article: A review of recent research in metareasoning and metalearning.
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- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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What Is Metacognition in Computation?
Rosie (the robot maid from the TV show The Jetsons) spends her days cooking, cleaning, ironing, and attending to the usual household tasks of late 21st century life. Because of a bug in one of her memory chips, however, she almost always forgets to buy dog food when she goes out. She has an adequate recovery plan for this: she simply feeds Astro some of the Jetson's dinner. But 21st century human food is expensive, so this strategy is wasteful. Realizing this, and recognizing that she has forgotten several times, Rosie adopts a special strategy to help her remember: she sticks the spare dog collar in her apron, where she will ...