The Talking Heads experiment : origins of words and meanings / Luc Steels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steels, Luc, author.

Series:

Computational models of language evolution ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology.

Information society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Language Science Press 2015

Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Talking Heads Experiment, conducted in the years 1999-2001, was the first large-scale experiment in which open populations of situated embodied agents created for the first time ever a new shared vocabulary by playing language games about real world scenes in front of them. The agents could teleport to different physical sites in the world through the Internet. Sites, in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, Tokyo, London, Cambridge and several other locations were linked into the network. Humans could interact with the robotic agents either on site or remotely through the Internet and thus influence the evolving ontologies and languages of the artificial agents. The present book describes in detail the motivation, the cognitive mechanisms used by the agents, the various installations of the Talking Heads, the experimental results that were obtained, and the interaction with humans. It also provides a perspective on what happened in the field after these initial groundbreaking experiments. The book is invaluable reading for anyone interested in the history of agent-based models of language evolution and the future of Artificial Intelligence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

CC BY

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (oapen, viewed Jun. 29, 2016).

OCLC:

1139843690

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_559870