Brief notes from the paper "Intelligence Without Representation" by Rodney Brooks

Intelligence Without Representation

The starting goal of AI was to enable a machine so that it could replicate human level intelligence.

Once people started to realise the magnitude and difficulty of this task, hopes started to diminish. Over the following 2 and a half decades there was very little progress made in producing isolated aspects of intelligence.

Requirements for “creatures” or agents.

• The agent must be able to cope and respond in a timely fashion in a dynamic environment.
• Any changes in the properties of the game world that the agent inhabits should not lead to the collapse of the agents behaviours, the Agent should be able to slowly change it’s behaviour to match the environment.
• The agent should be able to maintain multiple goals and be able to switch between these goals depending on it’s current circumstances.
• The agent must have a purpose in the world.a