Temporal Action Logic for Question Answering in an Adventure Game

Inhabiting the complex and dynamic environments of modern computer games with autonomous agents capable of intelligent timely behaviour is a significant research challenge. We illustrate this using our own attempts to build a practical agent architecture on a logicist foundation. In the ANDI-Land adventure game concept players solve puzzles by eliciting information from computer characters through natural language question answering. While numerous challenges immediately presented themselves, they took on a form of concrete and accessible problems to solve, and we present some of our initial solutions. We conclude that games, due to their demand for human-like computer characters with robust and independent operation in large simulated worlds, might serve as excellent test beds for research towards artificial general intelligence. Keywords. Temporal Action Logic, computer games, natural language understanding, artificial general intelligence, natural deduction, planning, epistemic reas...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AGI
• Authors: Martin Magnusson, Patrick Doherty
• Keywords: AGI 2008, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Timely Behaviour, Natural Language