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Re: Robot intelligence
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Date: 
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:32:49 GMT
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B van Dam <bvandam@westbrabant.#stopspammers#net>
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Hi Mario,

I'm trying to design a robot pet (using the Cybermaster and neural brain AI
software in VB). The problem I have encountered is that apart from the
basics (the desire for 'food') it is difficult to find suitable targets for
it's behaviour. How for example do I get it to explore it's world, how do
you create a desire to mate etc, etc. Is this described in the books you're
referring to? And are these books on the internet somewhere?

CU  Bert


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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Mario Ferrari <mario.ferrari@edis.it>
Aan: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Datum: maandag 15 maart 1999 16:17
Onderwerp: Robot intelligence


In the book "How to design and build your own custom robot" by David L.
Heiserman, Tab Books, I found a classification of robots according to their
"intelligence" (pages from 11 to 17). I wonder if this is just the author's
thought or if there's a sort general consensus on this theme. I personally
find this categories meaningful and useful.

I try to summarise some of the ideas:

PARABOT – it's a machine that can behave a fashion similar to that of a • robot,
but is not a robot in the truest sense, because it lacks an element of
autonomy or self-determination. Heiserman puts in this class all the • machines
that are directly or indirectly controlled by a human operator. Most of the
"industrial robots" fall here: they can perform complex tasks but need • human
intervention at some point to switch from a task to another.

ROBOT – If a machine is something more then a parabot, it's a robot by
default. Key words are "autonomy" and "adaptability".

Alpha-Class Intelligence – A machine that has absolutely no capacity for
remembering past experiences; it exists only in a very narrow time frame of
the moment.

Beta-Class Intelligence – A machine with the ability to remember responses
from past encounters with the environment, and then call up those responses
when similar conditions arise later. A Beta-Class machine actually works on • an
Alpha-Class level through the early part of its life, but as its hierarchy • of
experience grows, it exhibit smaller amounts of purely random behaviour in
favour of "habits" it has learned.

Gamma-Class Intelligence – A machine that starts its life as an Alpha and • soon
begins exhibiting the memory-related programming of a Beta. Then, as the
hierarchy of remembered responses grows and becomes refined with further
experience, begins generalising that knowledge to situations not yet
encountered on a first-hand basis.

There aren't examples of Gamma-Class robots in the book, but the author • writes
he has published programs for engendering that sort of behaviour in the • books
"How to build your own self-programmed robot" and "Robot intelligence…with
experiments".

Mario

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(...) It's all a matter of framing it in the correct reward/punishment context. E.g., if you want it to learn its environment, punish it for not running into things, reward it for actively avoiding obstacles (which opens the question: How're you (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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