Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Inferred Symbolism

This paper introduces AIRIS (Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Inferred Symbolism) to enable causality-based artificial intelligent agents. The system builds sets of causal rules from observations of changes in its environment which are typically caused by the actions of the agent. These rules are similar in format to rules in expert systems, however rather than being human-written, they are learned entirely by the agent itself as it keeps interacting with the environment.