Challenges for Complete Creature Architectures

Abstract

In recent years there has been a move within the artificial intelligence and robotics communities towards building complete autonomous creatures that operate in the physical world. Certain approaches have proven quite successful, and have caused a re-analysis within the field of artificial intelligence of what components are necessary in the intellectual architecture of such creatures. However nothing built thus far yet comes close the dreams that many people hold dearly. Furthermore there has been quite some criticism of the new approaches for lacking adequate theoretical justification. In this paper we outline some of the more obvious challenges that remain for these new approaches, and suggest new ways of thinking about the tasks ahead, in order to decompose the field into a number of manageable sub-areas that can be used to shape further research. 1 Introduction There is a growing interest in building artificial creatures of some sort. One example is the recent boom in a field kn...