The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle: Building Embodied, Situated Agents
By: editors, Luc Steels, Rodney Brooks
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781351001885
Subjects: Cognitive science; Artificial intelligence; Sciences cognitives; Intelligence artificielle
Notes: "Originally published in 1995, this volume is the direct result of a conference in which a number of leading researchers from the fields of artificial intelligence and biology gathered to examine whether there was any ground to assume that a new AI paradigm was forming itself and what the essential ingredients of this new paradigm were. A great deal of scepsis is justified when researchers, particularly in the cognitive sciences, talk about a new paradigm. Shifts in paradigm mean not only new ideas but also shifts in what constitutes good problems, what counts as a result, the experimental practice to validate results, and the technological tools needed to do research. Due to the complexity of the subject matter, paradigms abound in the cognitive sciences -- connectionism being the most prominent newcomer in the mid-1980s. This workshop group was brought together in order to clarify the common ground, see what had been achieved so far, and examine in which way the research could move further. This volume is a reflection of this important meeting. It contains contributions which were distributed before the workshop but then substantially broadened and revised to reflect the workshop discussions and more recent technical work. Written in polemic form, sometimes criticizing the work done thus far within the new paradigm, this collection includes research program descriptions, technical contributions, and position papers."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Research Programmes --; title: chapter 1 The Re-Enchantment of the Concrete --; title: Some Biological Ingredients for a Nouvelle Cognitive Science  -- Francisco J. Varela; title: chapter 2 Intelligence Without Reason  -- Rodney A. Brooks; title: chapter 3 Building Agents out of Autonomous Behavior Systems  -- Luc Steels; title: chapter 4 Are Autonomous Agents Information Processing Systems?  -- Tim Smithers; title: part, II Research Programmes --; title: chapter 5 Integration of Representation Into Goal-Driven Behavior-Based Robots  -- Maja J. MatariĆ; title: chapter 6 Autonomy and Self-Sufficiency in Robots  -- David Mcfarland; title: part, III Position Papers --; title: chapter 7 Autonomous Robots: A Question of Design?  -- John Hallam; title: chapter 8 A Boy Scout, Toto, and a Bird --; title: How Situated Cognition is Different from Situated Robotics  -- W.J. Clancey; title: chapter 9 The Challenge of Autonomous Agents: Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them  -- Rolf Pfeifer Paul Verschure; title: chapter 10 The Importance of Being Adaptable  -- Leslie Pack Kaelbling; title: chapter 11 Grounding Symbolic Capacity in Robotic Capacity -- Stevan Harnad.