Greetings

Hi everyone.
I'm from Reykjavík, Iceland (my name in Icelandic directly translates to Raven).
After about a years pause now from initially trying out SecondLife I decided to give it a Second Chance -- this time around I'm hoping to use SL more like an information tool, rather than a game-like experience.

Anyways, joining this group (along with the two other AI groups) as my interests are deeply rooted in Artificial Intelligence and emergence. I'm a student at Reykjavik University and a member of the school's newly founded artificial intelligence laboratory (CADIA, http://ailab.ru.is).

Does this group have regular meetings, discussions -- how does this work?

Cheers,
-Raven

Greetingz Raven

Welcome back to SL and welcome to the A-Life group.

We don't have organised meetings as such, we're more a collection of individual experimentors. We use the group forum (at least I do) to document our experiments and pass on ideas.

In this group we specialise in replicating life systems as opposed to programing inteligence. Though emergence of inteligence through selection would be a good result.

What are your interests?

Surina.

Surina,

I went to look at your fish the other day, and they were - as they say - conspicuous by their absence. Where are they, these days?

They should be in Hypatia right now.

I'm continuing to have problems with scripts randomly stopping, and lately with the server randomly stopping all scripts in all fish simultaniously. Which produces some interesting effects resulting in the fish flying off in random directions untill they go off world.

If anyone has any answers as to why this keeps happening, or how to avoid it then I'm all ears.

I believe you can blame LL for this one. I've noticed a large majority of scripted objects behaving oddly. My thoughts are that they changed the priority of CPU time given to scripts. Timers are all messed up, as well as physics calls.

The only reason I'm making these claims is because I've seen the effect globally throughout the grid. Not just isolated to one or two sims.

>Greetingz Raven

>Welcome back to SL and welcome to the A-Life group.

Thank you.

>We don't have organised meetings as such, we're more a collection of individual >experimentors. We use the group forum (at least I do) to document our experiments and >pass on ideas.

Right, allright.

>In this group we specialise in replicating life systems as opposed to programing >inteligence. Though emergence of inteligence through selection would be a good result.

>What are your interests?

Actually, you struck gold with your earlier paragraph about specializing in replicating life systems as opposed to programming intelligence directly.

I'm familiar with the ALife concept -- however, I see no particular quality in making a distinction between programming intelligence in systems, or programming life systems that by emergence behave intelligently.

Programming the mechanisms that produce intelligence as opposed to programming the intelligence directly is basically just a difference of methods. And this is where my interests lie, in the question:

Is it perhaps more beneficial to concentrate on mechanisms that emergently produce intelligence, or to program intelligent algorithms directly?

That quite neatly sums it up. But in general I'm interesting in all things related to intelligence in machines.

>Surina.

Looking forward to interesting conversations.

-Raven