The Talking Heads experiment: Origins of words and meanings

Computational Models of Language Evolution

Steels Luc

keywords: situated embodied agents;    language games;    shared vocabulary;    Human-Robotic interaction;    Language in Robotics;    agent-based models;    language evolution;    future of Artificial Intelligence;   

Publisher: Language Science Press

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【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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