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Rock Band is a revolutionary music game that will make you want to start a real band.

Rock Band comes with realistic drums, a karaoke microphone and a button guitar that may not be stringed but that certainly develops finger dexterity.

Rock Band for XBox 360

Rock Band for PS2

Rock Band for PS3

Rock Band for Wii

My biggest hope is that this game deepens people’s connection with the rock music that they love. Playing this game changes people’s understanding of music. Most people, they listen to rock, they don’t even separate the music into the different instrumental components. They don’t hear the drums and the bass and the guitar separately, it all sort of blends together into a mash for them. Playing this game changes that. Playing this game changes the way that people hear rhythms. It changes the way they hear the interrelation between different parts. The act of playing it just connects people in a very visceral, physical way with the music that they don’t otherwise experience. So really what it’s all about for us is just making peoples’ connection with the music that they love much more profound. I really do think that on a mass scale millions of people will understand and feel music in a different way because of this game.

—Harmonix

Empowerment's DOSPEC AI constitutes a breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology. It is a DOSPEC because it is a set of requirements for optimizing activity within a defined framework. The candidates for DOSPEC AI will compete and evolve in continuous improvement.

This is our developing documentation of the ideas.

Artificial Intelligence Engine

Character AI is one area where Empowerment will innovate dramatically over previous games.

OpenAI

OpenAI is Sim Empowerment’s revolutionary new artificial intelligence model. It will facilitate multiple overlapping models of AI in a general framework that makes AI programming easy and powerful. Perception and the Sensory Services Model OpenAI handles the sense perceptions and biological systems of the character. Whatever decision-making the character uses, its higher thought runs on top of these “services”.

Modular Decision Making Models

OpenAI abstracts the sensory system to perceive the environment from the decision-making process to guide actions within it.

The limited scope of current AI

Examples of current technology in AI scripts: guards who patrol and investigate noises and can be distracted by various ruses such as thrown pebbles or animal noises. They notice signs of intrusion such as opened doors or damaged property and sound an alarm, summoning reinforcements. This could serve to distract them from other areas as a distraction or it could result in a player becoming surrounded.

The Empowerment Idea-based AI

Ideas are like programs running in the AI’s brain system, interacting with each other and the perceived environment. This will closely mirror the AI used in the roleplay, but with the added challenge of explicitly programming all the possibilities without the subjective human interpretation of roleplaying.

Pathfinding The Planet

Getting around the real world is much more complicated than navigating a simplistic game map. There are regional boundaries to be crossed and multiple forms of transportation to be utilized such as elevators, stairs, bicycles, buses, cars, airplanes, trains and more. The use of transit will depend on well-designed AI ideas governing benefits of each method.

Alex & Nathan notes

LAIN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain

cyberpunk
autonomous with guns
that aint my robot, that bitch is lyin
we have a surprise for you: the mother is here!
forget anonymized IP, now you need to waer gloves cause that robot will be in forensics when it does something naughty.

collectivize the learning process
latent variable model
correlations

HDR ideas

efficiencies
calculating 4 ideas that are 90%, 80%, 5% and 1%.
Calculate the threshhold ideas fully and randomly pick between 1% and 5% only 6±5% of the time.

Online algorithms
writes its own code

Like TCPIP I'm making the comms protocol that is simpler than NLP
battle chess
Giving ideas their own characters beyond just icons


we're going to be nice till its time not to be nice. -swayze roadhouse

AFTER ACTION REVIEWS
experience

query all past wakeups and factors that led to them
see which correlated most
getting sleep and checking alarm clock
cache that as a new belief

competition between AIs with competetive coding

character class that is AI researcher
you are a 3d character coding your dynamic loop as it is running for your test subject
you need to be able to take omniscience of any person

your cloud
their cloud imperfectly emphathized and knowledge understood like knowing the symbols being used
your reaction may be to the wrong idea entirely


we view ourselves as a component of AI just like the reptilian brain is part of the human brain


obstacle courses

distributed AI for characters that override the core algorithms with better predictions for things under your own control or things that let you control them by agreement


you are competing on the basis of mindshare

you can never get too much of it because there's always a new idea
After you take over the world you get to meet aliens and persuade them.

"Sell vacuum to an alien" —Nathan Rice

Chooinsg a career is like choosing aspirations to explore

Lets say there is a tech tree AI
you learn how to implement or invent preexisting algorithms
until you become smart enough to really write the code by gaining the required skills