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

Tue Mar 6 20:56:21 CST 2007

Yeah, defining "optimized behavior" is a problem.  My definition would be
behavior that would not have me reaching for the remote control to "help
out the poor stupid robot".  Not a very rigorous definition, but one that
works for me.

William

----- Original Message -----
From: "David P. Anderson" <dpa at io.isem.smu.edu>
To: <dprglist at dprg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 7:33 PM
Subject: [DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)

> 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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