CNLS '89 Proceedings of the ninth annual international conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies on Self-organizing, Collective, and Cooperative Phenomena in Natural and Artificial Computing Networks on Emergent computation
Intelligence without representation
Artificial Intelligence
Software Agents and Their Bodies
Minds and Machines
The centrifugal development of artificial agents: a research agenda
Proceedings of the 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
Learning by observation of agent software images
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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In this paper, we present an architecture for software agents that enables them to learn vocabulary through the observation of each other bodies and actions. Besides sensors, effectors, and action control, the architecture provides the equivalent of a body with visual appearance. The agent soft visual appearance is designed to be seen by other software agents, not by people. The paper describes the agent software body with visual appearance, the learning mechanism, the demonstration scenario and presents some results showing that the agent software body allows agents to learn vocabulary through observation and to ground the meaning of the symbols they learn. The paper emphasizes the important role of social interaction in learning processes.