OpenEuphoria

RE: robot ai

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jan 30, 2001
• 428 views

On 30 Jan 2001, at 8:00, Chris Bensler wrote:

> Can't say that I'm all that educated on this subject, but from what I 
> know..
> 
> How would these bots 'remember' the patterns? Currently, with EU, the 
> patterns would have to be saved to a loadable file..

Seems to me that is the best way to save data, retrieve a little data from
massive
stores of it, and to spread the data to other creatures,,, the same way humans
use
library books and email.

> This is what I'm talking about.. the ability to have self modifying 
> progs..
> Programs that try RADICAL NEW concepts, devised by the AI.. not 
> preprogrammed actions that can be combined to achieve a different result 
> at RANDOM.

I don't like this idea of "random" that's crept into the discussion. If i want
to leave the
room, do i randomly try all methods? No, i never did that. I saw people passing
thru
holes cut into the walls, called "doors" or "hallways" or in more than one case 
"windows". Randomly deciding to exit by passing at a point averaged by the
positions
of the "door" and the "window" didn't occur to me. And once i added the code to
walk
on two legs, i still didn't try to get downstairs by tunneling directly thru the
floor. I had
by then picked up a bit of code called "reasoning", and i reasoned if i made a
hole in
the floor, this thing called "gravity" would eventually drop me thru it
unexpectedly.
That's two examples of non-randomly adding and executing a segment of code.


Kat

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