Linas Vepstas wrote First my answers to Antonio:
>>1) What is the role of Digital Evolution (and ALife) in the AGI context? The nearest I can come up with is Goertzel's virtual pre-school idea, where the environment is given and the proto-AGI learns within it. It's certainly possible to place such a proto-AGI into an evolving environment. I'm not sure how helpful this is, since now we also need to make sense of the evolving environment in order to assess what the agent does. But that's far from the synthetic life approach, where environment and agents are usually not that much pre-defined. And from those synth. approaches I know about, they're mostly concerned with replicating natural evolution, adaption, self-organization a.s.o. Some look into the emergence and evolution of cooperation, but that's often very low level and more interested in general properties; far from AGI. >>2) Is it possible that some aspects of AGI could self-emerge from the >> digital evolution of intelligent autonomous agents? I guess it's possible. But I guess one won't come up with a mechanism that works in an AGI system but with interesting properties of an AGI system. Most "intelligent agents" are faked, not really cognitive or so. In a simulation you see how agents develop/select strategies and what works in an (evolutionary) environment. Like (wild idea now) the ability to assign parts of its cognitive capacity to memory or processing depending on the environmental context (more memory in unchanging and more processing in changing environments). Those properties could be integrated later as a detail of a bigger framework. >>3) Is there any research group trying to converge both approaches? My best ad-hoc idea is to scan through the last year's alife conference program, look for papers that are promising, contact the authors and ask whether they are into AGI or know people who are. http://www.ecal2009.org/documents/ECAL2009_program.pdf One of the topics was artificial consciousness and I saw several papers going into this direction, often indirectly. Like the "Swarm Cognition and Artificial Life" paper on p.34 or the first poster on p.47. Now to Linas' part: > Seems like there could be many many interesting questions. Many of these are specialized issues that are researched in alife but more in social simulation. The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html is a good starting point if anyone is interested. cu Jan ------------------------------------------- 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=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
