While talking about this in the Reddit group I learned something and I came to a few conclusions. Shaping was a term Skinner used. But I think I probably read some papers that were from a cognitive psychology perspective and they may have tried to explain shaping using a non-Behaviorist approach.
Anyway I want to program some underlying behavior into my AI project. For instance, a simple naïve game-like behavior that I am thinking about could be used to focus the program's attention on a subject and get it to examine relationships around that subject. (This supposes that I would be able to use this and other behaviors in my text-based AI project to get it to recognize words or phrases that represent simple subjects.) There will also be other behaviors that will sometimes occur in the naïve program. And I am hoping I will be able to develop the program so that these simple behaviors will tend to be used more knowledgably and become goal-driven. But the first thing is that I do not want these behaviors to be logically equivalent to deterministic program instructions. So, 'reinforcing' the programmed behaviors will not be perfect or perfectly predictable. At any rate I am trying to say that there are ways to design internal pre-programmed behaviors to allow the user to shape some of the learning the program will do and most importantly, to help it to attend to some simple basic ideas that might otherwise be elusive. But this will not be just another form of programming. It will be more like teaching, Right now I am just trying to write a simple program to prove that the concept is fundamentally viable. The second thing I realized is that, we don't teach very young children the basics of the abstractions of thinking. They do need to develop strategies which will allow them to acquire some insight independently but these abilities have to available for knowledge-driven (and goal-driven) interests. So while I (or another user) should be able to recognize some primitive behaviors which can be used to focus the program's attention on some subject, the abstractions or thought processes which can be used with a particular subject will tend to be subject-centric as they will be most effectively employed for those particular subjects. There will be similarities of these subject processes since they will be partly composed of the same elementary processes. But they won't be completely composed of the elementary processes because as they are subject-centric and they will need to be specialized to be used insightfully on those subjects. ------------------------------------------- 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
