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The paper describes a road-map towards intentional behavior in artificial systems. We catch the developmental path in two dimensions, a social and an intentional dimension. Starting out with a babbling phase, development continues over an exploratory phase without social interactions and a phase in which action-level imitation is used. The pinnacle of development is the intentional imitation of goals. An experiment, together with preliminary results, is presented for each developmental phase.
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Jansen, B., de Boer, B., Belpaeme, T. (2004). You Did It on Purpose! Towards Intentional Embodied Agents. In: Iida, F., Pfeifer, R., Steels, L., Kuniyoshi, Y. (eds) Embodied Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3139. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27833-7_20
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