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changes from athena.
| author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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| date | Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:59:08 -0400 |
| parents | ced955c3c84f |
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| rlm@513 | 1 @@ -3234,8 +3354,8 @@ |
| rlm@513 | 2 |
| rlm@513 | 3 - =CORTEX=, a system for creating simulated creatures with rich |
| rlm@513 | 4 senses. |
| rlm@513 | 5 - - =EMPATH=, a program for recognizing actions by imagining sensory |
| rlm@513 | 6 - experience. |
| rlm@513 | 7 + - =EMPATH=, a program for recognizing actions by aligning them with |
| rlm@513 | 8 + personal sensory experiences. |
| rlm@513 | 9 |
| rlm@513 | 10 # An anatomical joke: |
| rlm@513 | 11 # - Training |
| rlm@515 | 12 |
| rlm@515 | 13 @@ -2732,7 +2851,7 @@ |
| rlm@515 | 14 provided by an experience vector and reliably infering the rest of |
| rlm@515 | 15 the senses. |
| rlm@515 | 16 |
| rlm@515 | 17 -** Empathy is the process of tracing though \Phi-space |
| rlm@515 | 18 +** ``Empathy'' requires retracing steps though \Phi-space |
| rlm@515 | 19 |
| rlm@515 | 20 Here is the core of a basic empathy algorithm, starting with an |
| rlm@515 | 21 experience vector: |
| rlm@515 | 22 @@ -2440,7 +2558,8 @@ |
| rlm@515 | 23 hard control problems without worrying about physics or |
| rlm@515 | 24 senses. |
| rlm@515 | 25 |
| rlm@515 | 26 -* Empathy in a simulated worm |
| rlm@515 | 27 +* =EMPATH=: the simulated worm experiment |
| rlm@515 | 28 +# Empathy in a simulated worm |
| rlm@515 | 29 |
| rlm@515 | 30 Here I develop a computational model of empathy, using =CORTEX= as a |
| rlm@515 | 31 base. Empathy in this context is the ability to observe another |
| rlm@516 | 32 |
| rlm@516 | 33 @@ -436,7 +554,7 @@ |
| rlm@516 | 34 doing everything in software is far cheaper than building custom |
| rlm@516 | 35 real-time hardware. All you need is a laptop and some patience. |
| rlm@516 | 36 |
| rlm@516 | 37 -** Because of Time, simulation is perferable to reality |
| rlm@516 | 38 +** Simulated time enables rapid prototyping and complex scenes |
| rlm@516 | 39 |
| rlm@516 | 40 I envision =CORTEX= being used to support rapid prototyping and |
| rlm@516 | 41 iteration of ideas. Even if I could put together a well constructed |