There are pros and cons to using any type of virtual game world. My general understanding is that a virtual world should provide the following:
1) The means to install a robust interface between the virtual avatar and the opencog system. 2) Sufficient world content to give the opencog agent plenty of data on which to learn from. 3) A plentiful amount of challenges that can be put into play for the opencog agent to solve. I feel that a complex physics system would serve to make #1 more difficult. I also feel that an interface between opencog and the physical or virtual avatar should be dynamic and modular, not necessarily bound to a complex embodiment. Thus, the opencog system itself could learn how to operate whatever body you give it. Additionally, I think the intelligence of the system should be developed and refined some more so that the system can learn how to control any sort of body that you give it. Therefore I would advise caution on devoting a lot of resources creating a world with rich physics, as it may be lacking in other crucial areas that would be important for developing and refining the intelligence of the system. Of course if there are other benefits of doing so that I am unaware of and if it wouldn't be too much work to do it, then it could be a better idea than I thought :) On Mar 22, 2014 4:00 AM, "Ben Goertzel" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have thought for a while that having a massive multiplayer online > robot simulator would be a good thing for AGI/robotics... one could > build a virtual world online with realistic physics, and have people > play games in this world where the AI characters were controlled by > robot control software... > > Right now one can use the same AI to control game characters and > robots, but game engines are not robot simulators so there are many > detailed differences when you get down to the level of action and > perception... > > Now I have found there is an OSS infrastructure that could be used to > build a massive multiplayer online robot simulator, namely Blender, > which began as a graphic design program similar to Maya / 3dsMax, > > http://www.blender.org/ > > but now features Blender Game Engine > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Game_Engine > > which can be used for building MMOGs using this code as template > > > http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?109123-BZoo-Network-Gaming-with-Blender > > and also is integrated with the MORSE robot simulator > > http://www.openrobots.org/wiki/morse/ > > So all the pieces are there for making a massive multiplayer online > robot simulator... > > Cool... ;) > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. > James T. Kirk > > "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free > our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
