On Nov 18, 2007 6:45 PM, Lukasz Stafiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben, > > Have you already considered what form of "multi-agent epistemic logic" > (or whatever extension to PLN) Novamente will use to merge knowledge > from different avatars?
Well, standard PLN handles this in principle via ContextLinks which allow contextual (e.g. perspectival) specialization of knowledge. However, **control** of this kind of process is the tricky thing, really.. melding knowledge from different minds is computationally costly and one has to decide when one wants to do it... > > Related, do you consider some form of "privacy policy", or do you put > the responsibility for not leaking secrets on avatars' owners? > For our initial virtual animals: There is a collective memory among all the AI animals, and also an individual memory for each animal, and there's a policy for deciding what goes in which... In later products we will likely allow more flexibility, and let users control how much they want their agents to share and/or take from the collective agent unconscious. -- Ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=66449659-1f8a96
