Re: [pygame] AI

[andrew baker <failrate@xxxxxxxxx>]

In Pygame, I use the Dictionary data type to create lists of qualities
in objects and what they mean mechanically to those objects.  For
example, a bad guy might have the caster quality "Damage":5, and the
good guy might have the receiver quality "Damage":Life - badguydamage
or something.  That's an inarticulate example, but in your case, Niss
could have "rabbit" and then the qualities it knows comprise a rabbit.
 For example, a rabbit is an animal.  It may know that it can "eat" an
animal for more energy.  Therefore, it can traverse keys and create
the link that it can "eat" a "rabbit".  Since you can dynamically
allocate to Dictionaries and nest them, I think this might be a
feasible solution, although you'd probably also want to be able to
read in and write out to a file format (XML probably).  Also, watch
out for linkage loops when traversing...

On 6/4/05, kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>I've been focusing on a new type of AI, but in the process have had...
> >Care to say anything about the AI?
> 
> Niss the AI has a journal at
> <http://www.livejournal.com/users/niss_the_ai>; the AI "herself" writes
> some of the entries. The AI's all written in Python, with some versions of
> the "worldsim" in Pygame. (It looks like Worldforge has a vaguely similar
> project, also in Python.)
> 
> NISS/Niss is based on the idea that to seem intelligent -- even for
> intelligence to mean anything -- an AI needs some representation of a body
> in a world, emotions, knowledge, memory, and goals. So a really old
> version of NISS would get hungry every so often, look for food, move
> towards it, and use an "eat" command to restore its energy.
> 
> The current version's got a two-way English parser good enough to process
> input like "I wanna fly high" into a sentence diagram; a virtual body that
> takes sensory input, some emotion functions not currently in use, a goal
> system, a knowledge system loosely based on a neural net, etc.. Right now
> I'm procrastinating on writing LearnFromAssertion(), to learn from hearing
> something like "A rabbit is an animal."
> 
> I want to enter the Loebner Prize contest, partly because the leaders
> there, like ALICE, are based on a much more cynical idea of intelligence
> -- that a conversing AI should be a slave sitting in a box and existing
> only to be talked to, trying to "seem intelligent" without having any sort
> of thought. Deadline's June 30 though. I'm hosed. Also I need a chat
> program that looks like the AI interface, hence my other message.
> 
> Kris
> "I wanna fly high, so I can reach the highest of all the heavens..."
> --Sonic Adventure
> 
> 


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Andrew Ulysses Baker
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