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Evolutionary perks of being irrational


Abstract Typical implementations of artificial intelligent agents suggest that actions should be chosen in order to maximise some reward function. This naturally complies the philosophy behind rational choice theory. Yet, this heuristic may not always provide long-term success to the considered agents. In this paper, we stress the need to consider the self-organised and frequency-dependent nature of the environment, when designing agents that act in complex adaptive systems. We resort to the tools of evolutionary game theory, combined with a paradigmatic scenario of a population of self-regarding agents playing Ultimatum Game, to describe the dynamical impact of individual mistakes on collective behaviour. We resort to agent based simulations to show that that seemingly disadvantageous and irrational errors become the source of individual and collective long-term success.
Year 2015
Keywords Game Theory;Multi-Agent Societies;Miscellaneous;
Authors Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Ana Paiva
Booktitle Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Pages 1847-1848
Series AAMAS '15
Publisher IFAAMAS
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@inproceedings { santos15, abstract = {Typical implementations of artificial intelligent agents suggest that actions should be chosen in order to maximise some reward function. This naturally complies the philosophy behind rational choice theory. Yet, this heuristic may not always provide long-term success to the considered agents. In this paper, we stress the need to consider the self-organised and frequency-dependent nature of the environment, when designing agents that act in complex adaptive systems. We resort to the tools of evolutionary game theory, combined with a paradigmatic scenario of a population of self-regarding agents playing Ultimatum Game, to describe the dynamical impact of individual mistakes on collective behaviour. We resort to agent based simulations to show that that seemingly disadvantageous and irrational errors become the source of individual and collective long-term success.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems}, keywords = {Game Theory;Multi-Agent Societies;Miscellaneous;}, pages = {1847-1848}, publisher = {IFAAMAS}, series = {AAMAS '15}, title = {Evolutionary perks of being irrational}, year = {2015}, author = {Fernando P. Santos and Francisco C. Santos and Ana Paiva} }

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