An Integrative Methodology for Teaching Embodied Non-Linguistic Agents, Applied to Virtual Animals in Second Life

Authors: Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Nil Geisweiller, Moshe Looks, Andre Senna, Ari Heljakka, Welter Silva, Carlos Lopes
Year: 2008
Venue: Proceedings of the First AGI Conference, IOS Press
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Summary

Demonstrates teaching virtual agents in Second Life through an integrative methodology combining imitation, reinforcement, and instruction-based learning.

Relevance to Hyperon

Early embodied AGI work that informed the learning approaches now being implemented in MeTTa for Hyperon agents.