RE: [agi] BDI architecture

[Ben Goertzel]

Hi,   The general BDI concept is hard to argue with -- minds need beliefs, desires and intentions.  Slide 6 of the www.cs.toronto.edu presentation you cite below, is certainly applicable to Novamente.  The goals are Goalnodes and goal maps, the precompiled plans are composite schemata, the plans are schemata and schema maps, the beliefs are declarative nodes and links...   The problem is that the BDI framework only tells you 10% of what's needed to make an intelligent agent.  And the simplistic BDI agents that have been implemented seem to lack the other 90% ;-)  So they're interesting toys rather than serious AGI systems, in my view...   -- Ben G       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Mike Deering Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] BDI architecture Margeret Heath  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   (CyberMeg),   BDI (beliefs, desires and intentions)   www.cs.toronto.edu/~mkolp/9-agents3831.pdf     brief explanation of a Microsoft BDI agent named Jack.     "Intention without Representation: Implementing Situated BDI agents" Peter Wallis, The Journal of Philosophical Psychology, (submitted July, 2002)     Existing agent models emphasize an intentional notion of agency – the supposition that agents should be understood primarily in terms of mental concepts such as beliefs, desires and intentions. The BDI model (Rao and Georgeff, 1991, 1995) is a paradigm of this kind of agent, although some attempts to include social aspects have been made.   yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ldesilva/doc/cs435.pdf   This document says BDI was developed by A. Rao and M. Georgeff in 1991 based on work by Bratman 1987 and Singh 1991.    ccc.inaoep.mx/~mapco/AGws-IRT.pdf  Automatic Generation and Maintenance of Hypertext for the Web through Information Retrieval Techniques  the construction of a belief-desire-intention (BDI) agent using the Zeus Agent Building Toolkit  www.labs.bt.com/projects/agents.htm     http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~giraffa/x-bdi/ Fruto do trabalho desenvolvido pelo professor Michael da Costa Móra em sua tese de doutorado no CPGCC/UFRGS - FCT/UNL. A ferramenta X-BDI foi desenvolvida com a intenção de diminuir a distância que existe entre teorias formais para especificação de agentes cognitivos e sua programação.   Mike Deering, Director www.SingularityActionGroup.com