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[DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)

Subject: [DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)
From: David P. Anderson dpa at io.isem.smu.edu
Date: Tue Mar 6 19:33:59 CST 2007

Howdy

William Crolley writes:

> Well my experience with the subsumption architecture was all hard wired
> relay logic.  Very fast, very reliable, and easy to debug.  But basically
> impossible to have any intelligent or optimized behavior take place.
> 
> A few years ago I did a very extensive literature search on this, and did
> not find any one who had achieved any sort of optimized behavior.  The
> closest anyone had done was to have actions that appeared intelligent to
> people who did not know what the code was doing.  A good example would be
> the twitching camera motion that David M. Wilson mentioned in his email.

Hi William.  

Can you define "optimized behavior" as you have used it above?

best,
dpa

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