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Can robots teach us anything about Culture? Festival of Ideas, 22 May 2011, Bristol

Can robots teach us anything about Culture? Festival of Ideas, 22 May 2011, Bristol. Alan FT Winfield http:// alanwinfield.blogspot.com / Bristol Robotics Lab http:// www.brl.ac.uk /. A Big Question: How do we have Culture?. ?.

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Can robots teach us anything about Culture? Festival of Ideas, 22 May 2011, Bristol

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  1. Can robots teach us anything about Culture? Festival of Ideas, 22 May 2011, Bristol Alan FT Winfield http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/ Bristol Robotics Lab http://www.brl.ac.uk/

  2. A Big Question:How do we have Culture? ? We are interested in the processes and mechanisms by which culture emerges…

  3. by building a working model of cultural evolution… with robots artificial culture lab

  4. What is culture anyway? The way we do things around here

  5. The Memetictheory of cultural evolution • Meme (n) A unit of cultural transmission • Transmitted by social learning and subject to • variation, • selection and • inheritance

  6. Learning by Imitation We focus on social learning by imitation The imitation of movement* *in the Bristol part of the project which I describe in this talk

  7. Project map This talk Robot movement imitation (UWE) Robot sound imitation (Abertay) 1 1 Human interpretation of robot behaviour (Warwick) Gene-meme co-evolution (Manchester) 2 3 Partner focus: 1: Robot model 2: Agent-based model 3: Human subject 4: Theory Philosophical and ethical interpretation (Exeter) Cultural theory & interpretation (Leeds Met) 4 4

  8. But your robots are nothing like animals or humans!

  9. Meet the robots e-puck brain eye skirt wheels

  10. Learning a (square) dance Teacher robot

  11. Learning a (square) dance Learner robot Learned action sequence… Teacher robot

  12. Imitation is hard to do

  13. Imitate the last thing you see Animation of recorded robot moves:

  14. …and the dance quickly degenerates

  15. Ok, try a different strategy Robot A Robot B Memory Memory

  16. Select which learned dance to enact, at random Robot A Robot B Memory Memory

  17. Open-ended memetic evolution

  18. And we see the emergence of a new meme species

  19. Making sense of it all A family tree of meme evolution. Solid lines and red memes are high-fidelity copies of parent memes

  20. Have we learned anything about (robot) culture?

  21. Thank you! • Co-investigators and researchers • Prof Alistair Sutcliffe, Manchester • Post-doc RA Dr Di Wang • Prof Frances Griffiths, Warwick • PhD student SajidaBhamjee • Dr Jim Bown, Abertay Dundee • PhD student Andy Guest • Dr Robin Durie, Exeter • Dr Jenny Tennant Jackson, Leeds Met • Prof Alan Winfield, Bristol Robotics Lab (lead) • PhD students MehmetErbas, Paul O’Dowd http://sites.google.com/site/artcultproject/

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