Airicist
19th November 2015, 16:01
Flowers Laboratory (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?3521)
The Ergo-robots experiment
Artificial curiosity and language formation in robots
Airicist
19th November 2015, 16:08
https://youtu.be/M-XUEl9pVJM
The Ergo-Robot Experiment: Artificial Curiosity and Language Formation in Robots
Published on Jan 8, 2014
Presentation of the Ergo-Robot Experiment by Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, during "Symposium on Language Acquisition and Language Evolution", Stockholm University, Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (organised by Francesco Lacerda and Bjorn Lindblom).
=== Summary
In a big egg that has just opened, a tribe of young robotic creatures evolves and explores its environment, wreathed by a large zero that symbolizes the "origin." Beyond their innate capabilities, they are outfitted with mechanisms that allow them to learn new skills and invent their own language. Endowed with artificial curiosity, they explore objects around them, as well as the effect their vocalizations produce on humans. Human, also curious to see what these creatures can do, react with their own gestures, creating a loop of interaction which progressively self-organizes into a new communication system established between man and ergo-robots.
The Ergo-Robot Experiment addresses a very important methodological and experimental need in Developmental Robotics: evaluating how algorithmic architectures for learning and development can scale up to long-term real world robot experiments (i.e. robot operating and learning continuously for several weeks or months). For this goal, which Ergo-Robots addresses [P28], and in the context of a research lab, one needs an experimental platform which is very robust, with precise and reliable motor control, easy to use and maintain, relatively cheap, and reconfigurable (in order to evaluate algorithms on robots with different morphologies, i.e. different robots).
The experiment was presented at the exhibition "Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere" at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (scenography made in collaboration with film director David Lynch) provided in itself a large impact for scientific dissemination of our research activities towards the general public, being explained by student scientific mediators to around 70000 visitors (trained students were continuously present in the exhibition), and being reported multiple times in the general press (e.g. France 2, France Inter, France Culture, RFI, BFM TV, Slate.fr, Sciences et Avenir, New Scientist, Financial Times).
ts software and hardware development was realized by the INRIA ENSTA ParisTech Flowers team in collaboration with University of Bordeaux/Labri: J?rome B?chu, Fabien B?nureau, Haylee Fogg, Paul Fudal, Hugo Gimbert, Matthieu Lapeyre, Olivier Ly, Olivier Mangin, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Pierre Rouanet. Scenography was realized in collaboration with David Lynch and his team. Scenography was realiszed in collaboration with David Lynch and his team.
Airicist
19th November 2015, 16:09
https://youtu.be/YRh8S1P2dcw
The Ergo-Robots
Published on Jan 19, 2014
"Ergo-Robots: Artificial Curiosity and Language" is an installation and experiment presented in the exhibition "Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere", from 21st october 2011 to 18th march 2012, in Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
It features and experiments computational of models of curiosity-driven learning and its interaction with language formation in humans and robots developped by Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and his INRIA ENSTA ParisTech team, as well as earlier models developped with Fr?d?ric Kaplan and by Luc Steels.
Scenography was realized in collaboration with moviemaker David Lynch and his team.
At the frontiers of sciences and art, exploring fundamental questions about the nature of humans and machines, it features robots that explore and learn about their environment through artificial curiosity, and at the same time invent their own language, to talk about their environment. Based onrecent advanced models of autonomous learning inspired by human infant development, they progressively acquire new skills, discover ways to communicate with humans, and self-organize their own culture.
Airicist
19th November 2015, 16:10
Article "Eye movements reveal epistemic curiosity in human observers (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698915003430)"
by Adrien Baranesa, Pierre-Yves Oudeyerc, Jacqueline Gottlieb
December 2015