Now this I would imagine is where evolutionary thinking has to be v. helpful if
not essential. .. if one traces the evolution of cooperative activity in
animals, it should be a useful guide to the stages needed to build up
cooperative activity among any agents.
Can anyone think of any work done on this?
My first totally scrambled thoughts are.. animals travelling in flocks, sharing
food, termite mounds, bees directing each other's journeys,... aargh. I know
too little of early animals. How on earth did evolution get to the complex
division of labour of ants, for instance?
A big point here - covered already? - is that language probably becomes more
complex in line with the complexity of social/ group activity.
----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin Goertzel
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] Sony's QRIO robot
Hi Mike,
Yeah, this is a well known requirement ;-)
In studying the MMOG application area for early-stage AGI's, the observation
has been made that, in current MMOG's, one of the big weaknesses of NPCs (non
player characters) is their inability to work together (with each other or
humans) as a team in adequately subtle and complicated ways.
For instance in World of Warcraft, an individual NPC can emulate an
individual human player, much better than a team of NPCs can emulate a team of
human players.
-- BenG
On 4/27/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Er this is a v. important dimension so far, I think, left out of the
informal list of basic requirements for AGI.
The social dimension of a machine's activities - and particularly its
social exchanges.
In fact, if an AGI machine is to undertake and adapt to problematic
activities, it will probably only be able to do so successfully as part of a
group. If say an AGi robot were to undertake a difficult neo-maze, loosely as I
specified, it would probably get stuck. But if there were a group, they could
help each other out and learn from each other.
That's what evolution tells us - we can't deal with the problematic
activities of life individually, only as members of groups.
If other group members don't exchange, cooperate with you, then you may
need to cut them out - as the Sony robot does.
(Ben, you realise the only reason we keep adding these requirements, is we
figure you may be finding the going too easy & unchallenging).
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric B. Ramsay
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:15 PM
Subject: [agi] Sony's QRIO robot
In reading about Sony's QRIO robot I came across the following. What
would this behaviour be categorized as in the continuum from thermostat to
human (following a previous thread)? :
"Interestingly, when they're doing demonstrations, they have found that
the AI in QRIO is so strong that if you haven't been friendly with it before
hand, for examples, by not kicking back a football it kicks to you, it will
refuse to do what you ask it in the demonstration. Effectively it is expressing
its annoyance...."
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