Running to Forget

Running to Forget

Running to Forget

What do ice cream and running have in common? Consuming indulgence foods and running are two actions that typically achieve opposite results: ice cream leads to weight gain and running helps you lose it; high sugar intake is linked to diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure, and heart disease, while exercise reduces those risks. Ice cream and running do have one thing in common though—both are se...

Failing to Forget

Most people have experienced distressing events that they would rather forget. Although memories of such events become less intrusive with time for the majority of people, those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are afflicted by vivid, recurrent memories of their trauma. Often triggered by reminders in the daily environment, these memories can cause severe distress and impairment. We pr...

To Forget or Not to Forget: Towards a Roboethical Memory Control

A long-term human robot interaction (HRI), which involves data storage of personal information, naturally raises ethical issues as a primary concern. This paper is an attempt to rise to this challenge by speculating how to best build and control a “roboethical” memory for a robot companion. We believe that memory is an essential feature in the design of a robot mind for this kind of longterm HR...

Forget It!

We encountered the need for a theory of forgetting in our work on Cognitive Robotics. 1 In our effort to control an autonomous robot, we imagine the robot has a knowledge base representing the initial world state. As the robot performs actions, she needs to bring the knowledge base up to date. To do so, she needs to forget about all the facts that are no longer true, and in such a way that this...