The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence: Building Embodied, Situated Agents

Steels, Luc, and Rodney Brooks, editors

ISBN 10: 080581518X / ISBN 13: 9780805815184

Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale NJ, 1995

About this Item

An ex-library copy in original laminated blue hard covers, with the usual ex-libris markings. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and there is little cover wear. No dust jacket, apparently as issued.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence: Building Embodied, Situated Agents
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale NJ
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080581518X
• ISBN 13: 9780805815184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

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.

Review

A core collection of essays on the new biologically and behaviorally informed approach to artificial intelligence pioneered most visibly by Rodney Brooks. Also of great relevance to research on autonomous online agents. Highly recommended.