MOOC Simon Fraser University - Canada - 2017
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Session 4: Cognitive Agents And Multiagent Systems
This session introduces the concepts underlying the notion of artificial agents. We study the belief, desire, and intention (BDI) cognitive architecture, and message based agent communication resting on the speech act theory. We discuss musical agents, conversational agents, chat bots and twitter bots and their artistic potential.
Definition of cognitive agent
The BDI model stands for Beliiefs, Desirs and Intentions
A bot is an application that performs an automated task, such as setting an alarm, telling you the weather or searching online.
Bots are everywhere in technology, ranging from malicious bots that come with a virus to search engine spiders that crawl the Internet looking for new Web pages to add. In this context, we’re talking about chatbots, which can hold a conversation with you to accomplish a task.
Example of Twitter Bots:
Musebots – http://musicalmetacreation.org/
MusiCog and ManuScore – http://metacreation.net/musicogmanuscore/
Excerpt from a real-time recording of SEASONS, a generative audio-visual experience in the Ambient Video genre. This work results from the work of the Generative Media Project at Simon Fraser University, led by Jim Bizzocchi. More information is available at ambientvideo.org.
Kinetic Engine V3 – MahaDeviBot & GanaPatiBot - https://youtu.be/C00z_PfAKrM
AI-based, real-time rendered 3D virtual characters – Grace and Trip in Façade – http://www.interactivestory.net/
Stelarc is an australian artist with a radical approach, described in a retrospective of his work in this TEDxVienna - https://youtu.be/Cx0dOOIbQAI
In this age of gene mapping, body hacking, face transplants, gender reassignment, prosthetic augmentation and neural implants, what a body is and how a body operates has become problematic. We face a future of stem-cell grown and bio-printed organs, prosthetic parts and exoskeletons. The body has become a contemporary chimera – a construct of meat, metal and code that performs as an extended operational system.
Prosthetic Head – http://stelarc.org/?catID=20241
I’ve tried to maintain a dialog with Agent Ruby, in a kind of chat box, but it turned out a bit nonsensical – http://agentruby.sfmoma.org/. Agent Ruby is not very smart.
Turing, A.M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind – http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
Interview with Eugene Goostman, the Fake Kid Who Passed the Turing Test – http://time.com/2847900/eugene-goostman-turing-test/
The Painting Fool is a computer program and an aspiring painter – http://www.thepaintingfool.com/index.html
An article on Aiva Generative Composer - https://futurism.com/a-new-ai-can-write-music-as-well-as-a-human-composer/ and surprising results - It becomes impossible to distinguish a human production from an AI production in this case
TensorFlow is Google's machine learning framework. Magenta, a project using TensorFlow to generate art and music with deep nets and reinforcement learning.
«Andrew Sorensen is an artist-programmer whose interests lie at the intersection of computer science and creative practice. Andrew is well known for creating the programming languages that he uses in live performance to generate improvised audiovisual theatre. He has been invited to perform these contemporary audiovisual improvisations around the world. Andrew is a Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology and is the author of the Impromptu and Extempore programming language environments.»
He has a great collection of videos in Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/andrewsorensen/videos/sort:plays and I was quite impressed with this installation
«Markos R. Kay is a digital artist, creative director, illustrator and lecturer with a focus in art & science. His work can be described as an ongoing abstraction and digitisation of the mysterious worlds of molecular biology and particle physics through a series of generative simulation experiments. These experiments explore the complexity and emergence of the invisible, and the computational paradigm of natural sciences.» - http://www.mrkism.com/index.html#feat
His animations are great - https://vimeo.com/mrkism
A list of generative art tools in - http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/generative-art-links/
Jason Rampe – Softology – Vision of Chaos creator - https://softologyblog.wordpress.com/