I guess something like this is in the plan of many, if not all, AGI projects. For NARS, see http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.roadmap.pdf , under "(4) Socialization" in page 11.
It is just that to attempt any non-trivial multi-agent experiment, the work in single agent needs to be mature enough. The AGI projects are not there yet. Pei On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Valentina Poletti <[email protected]> wrote: > Cool, > > this idea has already been applied successfully to some areas of AI, such as > ant-colony algorithms and swarm intelligence algorithms. But I was thinking > that it would be interesting to apply it at a high level. For example, > consider that you create the best AGI agent you can come up with and, > instead of running just one, you create several copies of it (perhaps with > slight variations), and you initiate each in a different part of your > reality or environment for such agents, after letting them have the ability > to communicate. In this way whenever one such agents learns anything > meaningful he passes the information to all other agents as well, that is, > it not only modifies its own policy but it also affects the other's to some > extent (determined by some constant or/and by how much the other agent likes > this one, that is how useful learning from it has been in the past and so > on). This way not only each agent would learn much faster, but also the > agents could learn to use this communication ability to their advantage to > ameliorate. I just think it would be interesting to implement this, not that > I am capable of right now. > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Bob Mottram <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2009/1/14 Valentina Poletti <[email protected]>: >> > Anyways my point is, the reason why we have achieved so much technology, >> > so >> > much knowledge in this time is precisely the "we", it's the union of >> > several >> > individuals together with their ability to communicate with one-other >> > that >> > has made us advance so much. In a sense we are a single being with >> > millions >> > of eyes, ears, hands, brains, which alltogether can create amazing >> > things. >> > But take any human being alone, isolate him/her from any contact with >> > any >> > other human being and rest assured he/she will not achieve a single >> > artifact >> > of technology. In fact he/she might not survive long. >> >> >> Yes. I think Ben made a similar point in The Hidden Pattern. People >> studying human intelligence - psychologists, psychiatrists, cognitive >> scientists, etc - tend to focus narrowly on the individual brain, but >> human intelligence is more of an emergent networked phenomena >> populated by strange meta-entities such as archetypes and memes. Even >> the greatest individuals from the world of science or art didn't make >> their achievements in a vacuum, and were influenced by earlier works. >> >> Years ago I was chatting with someone who was about to patent some >> piece of machinery. He had his name on the patent, but was pointing >> out that it's very difficult to be able to say exactly who made the >> invention - who was the "guiding mind". In this case many individuals >> within his company had some creative input, and there was really no >> one "inventor" as such. I think many human-made artifacts are like >> this. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> agi >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > -- > A true friend stabs you in the front. - O. Wilde > > Einstein once thought he was wrong; then he discovered he was wrong. > > For every complex problem, there is an answer which is short, simple and > wrong. - H.L. Mencken > ________________________________ > 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/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=126863270-d7b0b0 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
