Hi Mike,

Yeah, this is a well known requirement ;-)

In studying the MMOG application area for early-stage AGI's, the observation
has been made that, in current MMOG's, one of the big weaknesses of NPCs
(non player characters) is their inability to work together (with each other
or humans) as a team in adequately subtle and complicated ways.

For instance in World of Warcraft, an individual NPC can emulate an
individual human player, much better than a team of NPCs can emulate a team
of human players.

-- BenG

On 4/27/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Er this is a v. important dimension so far, I think, left out of the
informal list of basic requirements for AGI.

The social dimension of a machine's activities - and particularly its
social exchanges.

In fact, if an AGI machine is to undertake and adapt to problematic
activities, it will probably only be able to do so successfully as part of a
group. If say an AGi robot were to undertake a difficult neo-maze, loosely
as I specified, it would probably get stuck. But if there were a group, they
could help each other out and learn from each other.

That's what evolution tells us - we can't deal with the problematic
activities of life individually, only as members of groups.

If other group members don't exchange, cooperate with you, then you may
need to cut them out - as the Sony robot does.

(Ben, you realise the only reason we keep adding these requirements, is we
figure you may be finding the going  too easy & unchallenging).

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Eric B. Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Friday, April 27, 2007 2:15 PM
*Subject:* [agi] Sony's QRIO robot

In reading about Sony's QRIO robot I came across the following. What would
this behaviour be categorized as in the continuum from thermostat to human
(following a previous thread)? :

"Interestingly, when they're doing demonstrations, they have found that
the AI in QRIO is so strong that if you haven't been friendly with it before
hand, for examples, by not kicking back a football it kicks to you, it will
refuse to do what you ask it in the demonstration. Effectively it is
expressing its annoyance...."
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