I can’t see how it would be other than a patchwork sort of thing. To produce either a new patchwork or another patchwork in a series, you are forced to invent new shapes. I would suspect that the robots you refer to, once they have “had a stab at it [a given movement] /put their best foot forward”, will have to, in correcting and adjusting, invent new movements. (In both examples, the inventiveness may be v. minor – it’s just that they do not and cannot proceed from a template). A series of “stabs” at any course of action will constitute an ad hoc patchwork – as opposed to a preplanned pattern.
From: Aaron Hosford Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:11 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] The Bricolage [or imrpovisational] Approach to Computing This is not so much a patchwork sort of thing, but rather on-the-fly course correction, and waiting until the last minute so that only the data you actually need has to be calculated. I wish I had some references handy, but unfortunately this is one of those situations where I've read several articles on the topic but failed to memorize the location where I read them. If I happen across one again, I'll be sure to post it. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: Aaron: ..the old approach to making robots walk. The robot would take a step and then spend hours performing calculus operations on a model of the robot's leg to determine how the next step should proceed. The newer approach takes a simpler approach of letting the leg itself be its own model, and making real-time corrections to its movement as the robot recognizes it going the wrong direction. It's this on-the-fly correction combined with letting the system be its own model that I see as a good way to deal with impossible-seeming computational problems Aaron, can you provide some refs. on this newer approach in robotics – with which I v.much agree. I’ve talked a lot here in the past about the improvisational/patchwork approach to AGI. In fact, there is a small amount of computational tradition here, apparently – the “bricolage” approach to computing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage If anyone knows more about that, I’d also be interested to hear. AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
