Interview: Novamente’s Parrots And Advanced AI Progression
An interview with Ben Goertzel on the subject of Novamente's virtual pets is up on Gamasutra, a game developer site. The interviewer is the very same Jeriaska that is behind Future Current. Here's the intro:
As AI developers were convening in San Francisco for GDC, another artificial intelligence conference was wrapping up in Arlington, Virginia, a short walk from the Pentagon. AGI-09, the second conference on artificial general intelligence, brings together researchers attempting to create learning, reasoning agents with broad, humanlike intelligence.
Organized by Dr. Ben Goertzel, chief science officer of Novamente LLC, the AGI conference series is a motivated effort to steer research back in the direction of the original intents of AI, namely to make a thinking machine.
Goertzel's plan is to inch up the cognitive ladder by incrementally developing more cleverly adaptive pets in virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games.
This discussion with the AGI designer focuses on the prospects of introducing general intelligence to non-playable game characters.
The topics addressed include contemporary examples of game AI and what steps need be taken for game designers to foster MMO environments suitable for genuinely clever artificial general intelligence.
February 8th, 2012 - 13:20
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