TY  - GEN
AU  - Steels,Luc
TI  - The Talking Heads experiment: Origins of words and meanings
SN  - OAPEN_559870
PY  - 2015///
PB  - Language Science Press
KW  - linguistics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - shared vocabulary
KW  - situated embodied agents
KW  - agent-based models
KW  - future of artificial intelligence
KW  - human-robotic interaction
KW  - language in robotics
KW  - language evolution
KW  - language games
KW  - Lexicon
KW  - Paris
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Syntax
N1  - Open Access
N2  - The Talking Heads Experiment, conducted in the years 1999-2001, was the first large-scale experiment in which open populations of situated embodied agents created for the first time ever a new shared vocabulary by playing language games about real world scenes in front of them. The agents could teleport to different physical sites in the world through the Internet. Sites, in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, Tokyo, London, Cambridge and several other locations were linked into the network. Humans could interact with the robotic agents either on site or remotely through the Internet and thus influence the evolving ontologies and languages of the artificial agents. The present book describes in detail the motivation, the cognitive mechanisms used by the agents, the various installations of the Talking Heads, the experimental results that were obtained, and the interaction with humans. It also provides a perspective on what happened in the field after these initial groundbreaking experiments. The book is invaluable reading for anyone interested in the history of agent-based models of language evolution and the future of Artificial Intelligence
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