Autonomous Mental Development

However, existing online learning techniques typically applied to robot learning (for example, Hexmoor, Meeden, and Murphy [1997]) differ fundamentally from human learning. Online root learning using robot sensors is not equivalent to autonomous mental development in robots, nor should mental develop-This article describes a workshop on mental development and learning issues that are relevant to both machine and human sciences. It was jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and held at Michigan State University on 5 to 7 April 2000. Such systems already exist (for example, systems that use neural network techniques). There is a need, therefore, for increased studies in computational autonomous mental development (CAMD) that are of interest to both machine and human intelligence researchers.