I realized I haven't posted anything this week, and also that FWT is probably ending about now.  In regards to the first point; on Monday I finally got my hands on some books I had been searching for, "Robot Shaping" by Dorigo and Colombetti, and "Vehicles" by Braitenburg.  The former is a very technical review of experiments done using simple LCS- ( Read more... )

Stout, Konidaris, Barto, "Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning: A Promising Framework for Developmental Robot Learning." and ( Read more... )

Finlayson, Winston, "Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features:  The Goldilocks Hypothesis ( Read more... )

Brooks, "How to Build Complete Creatures Rather than Isolated Cognitive Simulators."

More on the "subsumption architecture" and the devices which the MIT AI lab produced using it.  As before, these are all very simple robots; the most complicated examples performed tasks such as object-tracking and navigating a chassis and robotic arm; however, this ( Read more... )

Brooks, "Intelligence without Representation ( Read more... )

Davis, Shrobe, Szolovits, "What Is a Knowledge Representation ( Read more... )

Cox, "Perpetual Self-Aware Cognitive Agents ( Read more... )

Lenski, Ofria, Pennock, and Adami, "The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Features ( Read more... )

Went to a presentation given by Greythumb Boston (a local artificial life "hobbyist" group) today.  The topic of the presentation was algorithms for the construction of structures by swarms of simple robots; in practice, this was mostly demonstrated by simulations of mobile agents moving blocks around into geometric shapes, governed by basic rules ( Read more... )

Rodney Brooks, "The Relationship Between Matter and Life."

A short article which I've seen referenced in a number of articles relating to embodied AI and its variants; in it, the author discusses the progress, and more importantly the lack-of-progress, in both artificial intelligence and artificial life, and speculates on what this means and what ( Read more... )