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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: Wed Mar 7 21:08:37 CST 2007
Howdy
> I do not have a problem with calling a robot that passes the Turing test
> intelligent, even if the code is not available to look at. However the
> twitching camera motion that David M. Wilson mentioned in his email is more
> typical of the "intelligent behavior" that is claimed to emerge. I do not
> consider his twitching camera motion to be an intelligent behavior. At
> worst it is a bug, at best it is the result of unoptimized code. Yet that
> is the type of unplanned behavior that is claimed in the literature as
> emergent intelligent behavior. Looking at the code is an easy way to
> determine this.
>
> William Crolley
Hi William,
That is not what I understand the term emergent behavior to mean. What
literature are you referring to?
The term as I understand it is used, for example, when a light-seeking
behavior pulls the robot towards a goal, while an IR avoidance behavior
pushes the robot away from obstacles, resulting in a wall following
behavior that was not programmed into the robot. It "emerged" from
more primitive behaviors acting in combination with a particular
environment.
best,
dpa
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