Physical
Embodied interaction through robotics, where intelligence must perceive an environment and act inside the physical world.
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Intelligent Agents
IAm
Intelligent Agent Manifested explores whether one persistent intelligent agent can preserve identity and context while changing how and where it is manifested.
Areas of Work: Artificial Intelligence · Education
Concept
Intelligence beyond the chat window
Most AI interaction happens through a text box. IAm asks what changes when the same conceptual agent can move between a physical embodiment, a virtual world, and a conversational interface.
Virtual
Manifestation inside a persistent software environment, including experimentation around LP-MUD environments.
Conversational
Interaction through conversational systems, including experimentation around Alexa.
PiDog Lab
The physical manifestation
PiDog Lab uses a PiDog robotic platform as an experimental environment for embodied AI. The robot makes it possible to explore the difference between intelligence that only produces information and intelligence that must interact with the constraints of the physical world.
PiDog is not a separate idea from IAm; it is the physical laboratory for the broader question of manifestation.
Research direction: Separate the agent's persistent identity and context from the interface or environment through which the agent is currently manifested.