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Steven Spielberg’s “A.I.” tells the story of two artificial agents: David and Teddy. While David resembles a human child, his companion Teddy is much simpler. Its behavior, however, still suggests a crucial mix of capabilities that stretch the state of the art in AI today. We argue that, unlike most contemporary AI, Teddy qualifies as a bona fide agent, and that implementing such a system would represent a valuable advance in our understanding of agency. We then describe a project to integrate our existing work to create a simple agent with Teddy-like capabilities.
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Perlis, D. et al. (2021). Live and Learn, Ask and Tell: Agents over Tasks. In: Marchi, E., Siniscalchi, S.M., Cumani, S., Salerno, V.M., Li, H. (eds) Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 714. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9323-9_31
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