Greg Detre
Thursday, February 27, 2003
Lenat
example: Fred told the waiter he wanted some chips
see Charniak as the original inspiration
�shook his piggy bank and it didn�t make a sound ��
it has a
notion of (indiscriminately ordered) prior events, and ordered prior events
Gary
Drescher(sp???) � schemas of situation, operation + result
you could
have a task that your agent has to succeed at, e.g. getting home when it rains
when there�s no hairdryer, which you could try and teach it by showing it how
connect to
OM or OM Experiences? OM Experiences is about collecting stories, sequences of
actions for given templates
you could
get a lot of data from the sensors in the house-n house, especially the old
person experiment to find out changes in daily patterns as an indication of
mental/physical health
others
sims-like games
bbc released a game assisted by Imperial college
The World � oneline chat sim???
kobot + lambda mu (michael kearns)? � social reinforcement learning
also neverwinter nights, everquest, star wars, unreal tournaments
release an
engine for game designers to build up a population of realistic offline
characters for adventure games
knowledge
as currency
difference
between reasoning with common sense knowledge vs logical reasoning
all the inferences you could make (logical reasoning) vs all the
inferences you would make (common sense reasoning)
Push
doesn�t care about the cheap apartments problem, because it�s easy to fix or
ignore � common sense is inherently buggy