Ernest's source code

Ernest's source code is available here with the instructions to use it. The cleaned-up and tested recommended revision is r296. This revision demonstrates the exact behavior of Ernest 7 reported in the Small Loop Experiment.

Interactional Motivation

 Olivier L. Georgeon, James B. Marshall, and Simon L. Gay 2012. Interactional Motivation in Artificial Systems: Between Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation.  In proceedings of the 2nd Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (EPIROB 2012), San Diego, pp. 1-2.

This paper presents the notion of interactional motivation that drives Ernest, and compares it to reinforcement learning as it is traditionally implemented in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs).