Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 63 of 68
Evolving meaning and communication bottom-up
Although the principles of new AI translate most directly into the field of robotics, they are by no means limited to issues in robotics. A closer treatment of the interaction between agents and their environments can be applied to every branch of AI. Luc Steels, director of the AI Lab at the University of Brussels, takes another line to the “bottom-up” approach by investigating the evolution of both meaning and communication systems in collections of agents.