It’s a somewhat general exploration at this point as I only recently made a paradigm shift in my dev. efforts. But the idea is to try and utilize emergence for content generation.

(ps. you have an AI blog! Excellent. We’re too rare a breed.)

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@John: Great topic… I’m so happy I found this blog.

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I’ve always assumed that desire was integral to human intelligence and creativity. With out desire we would not try to do anything or try to solve anything.

You’re definitely on the right track here John. Desire and motivation are an integral part of fulfilling or maintaining any goal.

So I think until robots are built with some type of “needs” they feel compelled to fulfill then true AI will never exist. But how do you build a robot to feel compelled to fulfill a need? That’s the real dilemma.

Ah. But “needs” come in various shapes and sizes. Especially when you consider that a need is just a particular motivation for action. For example, a bot in a first person shooter has no particular, emotional need to kill human players — but still it strives to fulfill that goal. Similarly, provided that we create mechanisms for creativity, the mechanisms could use themselves to build or invent motivation Well, that’s a hack of an explanation [we could go into exploring evolutionary incentives for needs and how they can be replicated]. But still demonstrates the idea to some extent.

Obviously you’ve given this more thought… but I’ve always assumed that desire was integral to human intelligence and creativity. With out desire we would not try to do anything or try to solve anything. It is said that “necessity is the mother of invention” but necessity is based on us having the desire to do things. So I think until robots are built with some type of “needs” they feel compelled to fulfill then true AI will never exist.

But how do you build a robot to feel compelled to fulfill a need? That’s the real dilemma.

You, my friend, just made my day.