Re: Where is behavior AI now?

"J.A. Legris" <jalegris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately, the complexity of neurological processes does not lend
itself to digital implementation - we immediately run into a
computational explosion, just as we do in attempting to simulate other
natural phenomena with computers.

It's unclear if the computational explosions that people run into when
attempting to implement behavior is due to some intrinsic nature of the
effect (as it is with weather for example), or if it's simply a fall out of
using the wrong model. I've always believed it was just a problem of not
having the right model.

If robotics is to obtain a natural model of behaviour it will need a
computational platform whose intrinsic behaviour is somehow analogous
to neurological processes (or some distillation of their essence, if
such a thing is possible),

Yes, that's true.

so that instead of explicitly computing the
behaviour, it just "does" the behaviour.

I think that's just a silly statement. "computing" and "doing" are one and
the same things. Computers don't "compute", they behave according to their
design.

There may be some way of doing
this with analog electronic circuitry, but I suspect that the only
thing that behaves like a neuron is another neuron.

I suspect the basic function performed by a network of neurons will be easy
to duplicate in digital hardware.

And so maybe that is why behaviour-based robotics seems to have
stalled. A behavioural approach leaves out the details that are vital
to the implementation.

Yes, something is left out, that's for sure. The question remains what
that is however.

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