Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI)
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Prof.Dr.Luc STEELS
Free University of Brussels
Studying the Origins of Intelligence through Autonomous Robots
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An experimental setup is described for studying how intelligence may
have originated in physical systems. The setup consists of a robot
ecosystem that includes a number of small robots and challenges
for the robots in terms of parasites as well as opportunities in
the form of a charging station. A number of biologically inspired
mechanisms are being investigated for generating more behavioral
complexity in the robots: adaptivity, selectionism, self-organisation,
level formation, and representation formation. The talk will focus on
one series of surprising experiments that demonstrate how it has
indeed been possible to arrive at more complexity.
Luc Steels is director of the VUB AI Laboratory (Brussels) and holds at
present the Sony sabbatical chair at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory
in Tokyo.
Zeit: Mittwoch, 21.Juni 1995, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: OeFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1.