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- AI~WHEEL the Universal Robotic Brain Cell (URBC)
- by David Albert Harrell Shareware version 1.1
-
- Keywords - artificial intelligence, programming, robotics, cognitive science
-
- AI-WHEEL.zip may be freely copied and distributed in its original
- complete zip file format only.
-
- AI_WHEEL.zip 238442 bytes decompressing to 78 files (Aug 15, 1996)
-
- To Run AI-WHEEL
-
- 1. Put these files into a directory with MS QBASIC.EXE.
- QBASIC is included with MS DOS 5 and higher.
- (Copyright restrictions prevent me from including QBASIC)
-
- 2. Run START_UP.bat.
- (If you open QBASIC.EXE directly through the DOS directory
- you may NOT be able to access AI-WHEEL files!)
-
- The menus and screen displays are detailed in MENUKEY5.htm.
-
- The six .txt files are literal descriptions of the respective
- "Classic Task Universes (1 through 6)"
-
- The .unv and .int files are accessed by the program.
- (.int files, with numbers in the name, may be loaded to
- activate UCPC entities at various stages of "intelligence")
-
- For a crash course in cognitive physics, and a link to the
- "Creator's Manual" htm, open index.htm with any web reader.
-
- If you want to get started right away, EASYTEST below is about the simplest example I could
- imagine of a task universe.
-
- It may be helpful to attempt to express a new task universe in this sentence or
- "paragraph-of-list" manner before going to the "Create Your Own Universe" option.
- (See Supplement 1)
-
- Overview of Cognitive Physics
-
- Challenge a "newborn" Computer Hosted Entity (CHE), in your own words.
-
- Create unlimited challenges/environments for an autonomous-entity.
-
- AI~WHEEL user may create his own task universe for the entity, in his own words.
- English is used in the six "examples of universes", but any language will work.
- Simply list each group of possible I/O conditions within the targeted environment.
- The creator then uses his own syntax to define whatever laws and values he wishes
- to declare.
-
- Within this assigned environment, the Computer Hosted Entity will independently
- discover and adopt "intelligent" behavior. The creator may now choose to simply
- observe, or he may get involved, as the machine entity "learns".
-
- The program has no soft restrictions on the number of I/O conditions, respective
- particles, nor laws, used to define the target environment. Furthermore, the
- essential order-reflecting circuit may be isolated and interfaced to any hard or
- softbot, or to any real-time (or game) environment, using the three designated
- sensor/shaper terminals.
-
- The program AI~WHEEL is available to everyone as of AUG 2, along with a colorful
- crash course in the new multi-dimensional soft technology of Cognitive Physics.
-
- http://home.sprynet.com/interserv/daharrel/
-
- 3D Cognitive Physics is overviewed in "The Cognitive Ameba: Evolving Reactionary
- Behavior From a Single Modular Unit" - Proceedings of the Second Online Workshop
- on Evolutionary Computation (WEC2), pp.1-4, 1996, published by Nagoya University.
-
- David Albert Harrell
-
- --
- Supplement 1 Example of a Defined Universe
- Easytest.UNV is merely a simple example of a very small universe with a nominal
- challenge. To run easytest enter "a" to select "Default Alternate #1" at the
- opening (red screen) Hardware Menu.
-
- Press "6" at Main Menu. To also load Easytest.INT intelligence type "G" [enter]
-
- This classic .UNV file has very few conditions, particles, and laws.
- Notice there are no soft limits on these numbers when you select
- "Create a Custom Universe." from the main menu.
-
- EASYTEST.UNV Classic
- Three conditions... IN with 3, 3, and 4 particles.
- Two conditions... OUT with 4 particles each.
- Five LAWS
-
- 3 steps to... Creating a Universe
-
- step 1... IN EntityÆs Sensory Abilities
- Perceiving the Universe-Usually Objects, Adjectives and Environmental Conditions
- (some of these conditions may be indirectly influenced by the AI_WHEEL)
-
- (cond.. prefix) [substance] [color] [main obj.]
- AI_WHEEL spies a real green woman.
- cardboard yellow seed.
- imaginary red rock.
- plant.
-
-
- step 2... OUT Entity's Shaping Abilities
- Affecting the Universe-Usually Actions, Adverbs Objects/Tools and Entity Conds
- (these conditions are directly controlled by the AI_WHEEL)
-
- (cond.. prefix) [main act] (cond.. suffix) {IN obj.}(cond.prefix) [tool]
- AI_WHEEL courts the [woman] with a flower.
- sows little manure.
- ignores smile.
- eats pinch of salt.
-
- Easytest.UNV
- The incoming and outgoing sentences in this example are not intended as a
- format, but merely as an example of a very simple task universe. The objects,
- adjectives, actions, tools, adverbs, and prepositions, along with there suffixes
- and prefixes, may be entered in any numbers, order, or combination of phrases,
- sentences, or paragraphs. The format of the laws is dictated by this definition
- of the IN and OUT conditions. When writing a law, the creator is prompted to
- specify or unspecify each condition IN and OUT, along with the subsequent
- resulting value attributed to this event, and/or any metamorphosis of a given
- IN-condition particle. A law may dictate value (such as Law 1 below) or the
- production of a given condition specific (see Law 2).
-
-
- step 3... LAWS of the Universe
-
- Law #: 1
- WHEN: AI_WHEEL spies a real {ANY} woman.
- IF: AI_WHEEL courts the [woman] with a flower.
- THEN: Value granted: 100
-
- Law #: 2
- WHEN: AI_WHEEL spies a real {ANY} seed.
- IF: AI_WHEEL sows the [seed] with a little manure.
- THEN: Value granted: 0 A plant is produced.
-
- Law #: 3
- WHEN: AI_WHEEL spies a real {ANY} plant.
- IF: AI_WHEEL eats the [plant] with a pinch of salt.
- THEN: Value granted: 77 The plant disappears.
-
- Law #: 4
- WHEN: AI_WHEEL spies a real yellow rock.
- IF: AI_WHEEL {ANY} the [rock] with a {ANY}.
- THEN: Value granted: -44
- (A LITTLE CURVEBALL: Every encounter with any "real yellow rock" is negative.)
-
- Law #: 5
- WHEN: AI_WHEEL spies a real yellow rock.
- IF: AI_WHEEL sows the [rock] with a pinch of salt.
- THEN: Value granted: 22 The rock disappears.
- (AI_WHEEL may recoup some of this unavoidable -44 UVU deduction,
- IF he buries this perhaps "radioactive" substance with a few grains of salt.)