D-Learning: what learning in dogs tells us about building characters that learn what they ought to learn

  • Authors:
  • Bruce M. Blumberg

  • Affiliations:
  • The Media Lab: MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue, N18-5FL Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Exploring artificial intelligence in the new millennium
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A fundamental capability of compelling autonomous animated characters is the ability to learn from experience and to alter their observable behavior accordingly. In this chapter, I highlight important lessons from animal learning and training, from machine learning, and from the incorporation of learning into digital pets. I then briefly present an approach, informed by the lessons above, toward building characters that learn. Finally, I discuss a number of installations we have built that feature characters that learn what they ought to learn.